The RSPB’s latest newsletter is here. There are features on puffins and swifts, and on garden sunbeds (for nature, not we humans). Meanwhile, the Earth Day Network is asking for help in selecting a theme for 2018. The choice we have is below, and you can click to vote: Plastics Plastics litter our cities and oceans, and…
1. The Best of Both Worlds Conference for Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability takes place in the Kruger National Park , South Africa from 5-8 November 2017. This conference is a forum for practitioners, teachers and those involved in education and communication to meet and share experiences in strengthening the framework for environmental education and education…
Over the last two years, a group of people from across the Wildlife Trusts has been exploring the establishment of Nature Schools with an ethos based on learning about, and in, the natural environment. The Red Kite Academy Trust has now been formed and intends to submit an application to government for the first four Nature Schools in…
The Irish Times recently carried an article titled: Preschools without walls: why children need outdoor play. Too much screen-time and inactivity, it says, is depriving young people of vital lifeskill. It begins like this: “Every generation winces when the previous one recalls how much better life was in their day. But one thing everyone remembers is…
Why Animals Can’t Save the Planet is a compact, colourful book that shows children what they can do to “save the planet“. The book is written in rhyme and features bold, colourful illustrations of animals trying – and obviously failing – to carry out actions that are easy for humans to do: a gorilla struggling to…
Registration is now open for the 46th Annual NAAEE Conference [ October 18-21 ] and the 14th Annual Research Symposium [ October 17-18 ]. It’s being held in partnership with Para la Naturaleza in San Juan, Puerto Rico. NAAEE says: Our 46th Annual Conference will build on more than four decades of work in our field to think creatively and collectively about how we…
Today’s blog takes us to the Children and Nature Network where you will find the following posts (and more): A CHILD’S RIGHT TO NATURE: Why the City of Austin Created a Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights #100HOURSUNPLUGGED: A Challenge to Families to Go Offline and Outside Together TOGETHER IN NATURE: The Impact of the Family…
There’s a free CPD programme for all educators from 7th June to 5th July at the University of Gloucestershire. It’s from 4pm to 6pm on Wednesdays – starting today. You can explore how learning for sustainability can: join up the subjects that our learners study bring some big global issues into our teaching encourage young people to become…
The University of Gloucestershire and the International Ecolinguistics Association have launched a new open online ecolinguistics course: The Stories We Live by. This is Free Everything in the course is free, including accessing the materials, registering, tuition, and a certificate of completion. And you are free to reuse materials in any way (e.g., in teaching). On now Simply click here to access all the…
When grandchildren visit, their homework in tow, it’s essential to get involved. This is not so much to contribute the wisdom of venerability, as an extra pair of hands. The latest task was to write about a creature found in the rain forest. Whilst this was a generous topic: open-ended and full of possibility, there…