Curriculum for a Change – Did you see the launch last week of the Curriculum for a Changing Climate from teachthefuture.uk? If you didn’t, you can now view and download the primary papers. As these are still working documents, suggestions and critique are welcome. The launch webinar can be rewatched or shared with colleagues: Launch Webinar: Primary Curriculum for a Changing…
Anna Ridgewell, from the University of Sussex, won the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2023 Best ePoster Prize and has now contributed a post to its Blog: Growing up green: What value is placed on accessing outdoor environments across different childcare and educational settings? This is how it begins: “It is well known that…
Today’s post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David is Tynedale’s Bicycle Mayor. As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association. If time travellers from the 19th Century were to arrive…
Friday was International Poetry Day. To celebrate it here’s John Clare’s On a Lane in Spring. As usual with Clare, the punctuation is minimalist. A Little Lane, the brook runs close besideAnd spangles in the sunshine while the fish glide swiftly byAnd hedges leafing with the green spring tideFrom out their greenery the old birds…
Snap – The latest DfE climate education snapshot is here. There’s information on [i] a Sustainability In Education Conference, [ii] the Sustainability at Middlesex Learning Trust, [iii] a month of climate actions, [iv] Education for Sustainability 101, [v] Wilding schools, and more. . Country Profiles – The UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report and its Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication…
Youth Pressure – With the general election fast approaching, SOS UK is ramping up its activities in order to create a wave of youth pressure that it hopes can’t be ignored. Its purpose is to ensure the next government delivers on mandatory, integrated, solutions-centred climate education. There will be youth political workshops, in-person regional events, and a grading of political…
Today’s post is by Dr Ian Humphreys, the Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and an NAEE Fellow. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association. It was an eventful start to 2024 for us at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful as we launched a new…
The Globe is the news update from the Global Dimension website, a free online library of global teaching resources that is produced by Reboot the Future. Reboot’s output for March focuses on respect and dignity. It says, find great conversation starters and classroom resources below to help you enrich your teaching this month and foster connection and compassion…
SOS UK – Join Students Organising for Sustainability-UK on a farm visit between April and July and help it with critical research on the climate and nature crises. You’ll get free online training, accredited digital badge, and expenses covered. Details here. . Nature Park News – Over 1900 schools, nurseries and colleges have now joined the Nature Park, and over 800 have…
The American Institute of Physics’s (Neils Bohr Library) has a focus on how the phenomenon of global warming has been researched and discovered. This includes milestones in a timeline. This is how it begins: 1800-1870 Level of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) in the atmosphere, as later measured in ancient ice, is about 290 ppm Mean global…