Julia Parker-Dickerson, Director of Education Programmes at KidsGardening.org explores school gardening in New York. Housed together in a four-story brown brick structure surrounded by brownstones and apartment buildings in Brooklyn, New York are two schools: Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (PS 705) and the Explore Exceed Charter School (Exceed). These combined schools in the Crown…
But only in the USA. NEEF’s 12th annual National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) is taking place from April 17-23. It’s the USA’s largest celebration of EE, and it sets out to inspire environmental learning among school students, and beyond, with events and projects taking place across the country in classrooms, after-school clubs, parks, aquariums, museums, and…
The Young People’s Trust for the Environment (YPTE) has been busy for the last few months creating lesson plans and presentations to assist teachers in delivering lessons on environmental topics that meet with the requirements of the National Curriculum. YPTE offers free talks and presentations in schools, but as a small organisation with a limited…
Click here to see the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom’s range of events from now to the autumn.