Monterey Bay Aquarium lesson plans
This link will take you to lesson plans from the Monterey Bay Aquarium research institute. The foci are: Underwater gliders – used by scientists are the future of oceanic exploration. Follow the steps in this mini-unit to learn about data collected off the coast of Antarctica and how science and technology blend [...]
Varied, Valuable but Vulnerable
For several years in newsletters and other publicity our local Cumbria association has used the strapline: Varied, valuable but vulnerable. So much change is underway both nationally and locally at the moment with many important decisions to be made that the implications for the many special areas of the UK risk [...]
New Books on the environment and people
Natural England's recent update on research identified a number of books. Here is a selection: 1. Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven edited by Sue Waite. Learning outside the classroom is increasingly seen as beneficial in both early years and primary settings, and it is becoming embedded in [...]
Monday Round up – August 28 to September 1
1. A new book, The Living Forest: A Visual Journey into the Heart of the Woods, by Robert Llewellyn and Joan Maloof encourages readers to study forests and not just walk in them. The Mother Nature Network [MNN] has a review of the book by Angela Nelson. She begins: "You might think [...]
International Bat Night – 26th / 27th August
This annual celebration of bats sees bat events for the public taking place across the country. Bat groups, park rangers and community groups organise fantastic bat walks and talks at dusk, as well some day time fun days. This celebration of bats is held by bat groups and the Bat [...]
An ONS consultation on the SDGs
The ONS consultation on sustainable development goals (SDGs) is live. The purpose of the consultation is to seek views on ONS’s approach to the measurement and reporting of UK progress against the global indicators that underpin the SDGs. Whether you provide data to feed into these measures, are interested in helping [...]
What Sir David said in Edinburgh
Here are a few of the remarks that Sir David Attenborough made at the Edinburgh International Television Festival yesterday. "I spend a lot of time wringing my hands and saying how dreadful it is that this forest has been obliterated and that sea has been polluted and whatever. But there are [...]
Campus biodiversity
King’s College has numerous initiatives in place to improve biodiversity for the benefit of wildlife, staff wellbeing and the local community. These include the installation of an invertebrate habitat, bird boxes and bee-friendly flowers at the Guy’s Campus in London Bridge. Kat Thorne, Head of Sustainability, says: Enhancing biodiversity [...]
National Sustainable Schools Conference 2017 – a call for participants
SEEd is inviting organisations and individuals with a focus on sustainability to host "innovative and inspiring" workshops at this conference on November 13th. It is also inviting organisations and individuals to host stalls in the Share Fair. It says that around 200 educators, young people (7 – 21 years old), NGOs and businesses [...]
Studying a locality through a global lens
It is quite a challenge to teach children to understand the environmental issues that our planet faces. The incredibly abstract scientific ideas backed up by a wealth of carefully compiled data are arguably of less significance to the average primary school pupil than other more pressing concerns that they might [...]
Nothing exists in isolation
A Web of Life blog on our interconnectivity by William Graham begins like this: Nothing exists solely on its own. From the most minuscule atomic particle to the grandest galaxies, the past, the present, and the future of every animate and inanimate being in our universe, including human beings, is defined [...]
Monday Round up – August 21 to 25
1. London National Park City – a consultation. In this you can indicate how you might help to shape or benefit from the future programme of activities for London National Park City. You can respond as an individual or on behalf of a group or organisation. The consultation closes 15th September. 2. Bee-eaters are very rare [...]
