Step 1) Introduction (15 minutes)

In class, whole group :

Public transportation is important! Project this video in class to show the students why it is important to have access to public transport services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0K5FdSRl8Q 

As a way of introducing reflection on personal (non) public transportation habits, show the students the following video regarding transportation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFeSrG7gjvU

Ask some questions to reflect during a class conversation:

• How do you come to school? Do you think this has a large impact on the environment? Do you use this mode of transport because it is the easiest/quickest/cheapest? Which alternatives do you have?
• Do you think you use the “right mix”? Which (small) changes could you make to do so?
• Are there certain elements that keep you from using more sustainable transport modes?

Step 2) Business case: introduction.(20 minutes)

• Divide the students in groups. Depending on the size of the class group, divide them in groups of minimum 2, maximum 5 people. Each group should have at least 1 laptop with internet access. 
• Share the presentation of the business case with the students. (Please do not forget to fill in the city and country where the factory is located. See “Notes for Educators” for more information.)
• Give the students 10 minutes to analyze the business case and ask questions if necessary. 
• Explain the goal of the business case: students need to use their creativity to propose different possible solutions for the problems the company is struggling with. It is of course recommendable to look on the internet for suitable and sustainable solutions for the case.

Step 3) Working on the business case.(60 minutes)

• Give the students time (30-40 minutes) to find solutions for the business case.
• After having collected different solutions, the students will prepare a short presentation. Provide 30-20 minutes to make the presentation, in class or, if you and the students prefer to do so, at home.

Step 4) Pitch the solutions.(5 minutes per group)

As a last step, every group will pitch their ideas, using the presentation they just made. Allow the other students to ask questions if they want to.

- CALL TO ACTION 1

60 minutes per group, continue in groups from the previous step

In the previous steps, the students worked on solutions for a business case in which the existing issues clearly were addressed. Now it is time to expand the competencies: in this call to action, students should detect themselves the issues in a new case, using their critical thinking competence.  

In this call to action the students will have to analyze the transportation strategy of their own educational institution. This will result in a small scale social media campaign that will be shared on the online platform the school uses.

The following instructions can be given as homework:

• In the same groups as the previous exercise, apply the same creative thinking to your own school. Questions that can help the students are:
  • How do you come to school?
  • How do your classmates come to school?
  • Does the school encourage students to use public transport and/or zero emissions means of transport?
  • Are there a lot of students and/or educational staff who come to school by car? 
  • How many bikes could be stored in the parking lot of the school?
  • …

The task is to prepare a very short online campaign that the students can share on the school's online platform. This means that each group is expected to create 1 sentence that contains information to make people rethink the transport they use to come to school. Prepare a shared document (spreadsheet) in which each group will write their sentence. (It is important to make it a shared document, so the groups don’t write the same contribution.)

The 1st tab contains the ideas of the students, the 2nd tab contains ideas for the title of it, written by the students. This document can be used to collect the ideas: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KU1vYYngRwncDtxAfgOcVvd-NFmIFh7ZQFLcBAssqeM/edit#gid=2044326333 

Share the input of the students in 1 document, and select the best title. Ask the IT department of the school to share it on the central page of the online school platform.

- CALL TO ACTION 2

60 minutes per group, in same groups as the groups for the business case

Under the slogan “celebrate small successes”, the students can encourage people who are already “doing the right mix” to continue what they are doing. How? The students will use their creativity to find a way to thank the people who come to school by bike, on foot or using public transport. 

• Divide the students in the groups of the business case.
• Let them think of small-scaled campaigns to thank people who use a sustainable form of transportation to come to school.
  • Some tips: design a poster with a clear message to thank them, but also to encourage others why it is important to use sustainable means of transport/ create and hand out sustainable gifts with a small “thank you” message and thank them personally when handing out the gift
• Timing: it is recommendable to do this action when people arrive to school: e.g. when installing their bikes at the bike station of the school, hanging the posters near the bus and/or train stations in the neighbourhood...