Ben Ballin writes: Back in January, NAEE trustee Morgan Phillips offered his stimulating thoughts on reframing environmental education. This blog is intended to complement his contribution, and indeed it especially concerns itself with the value of adopting complementary approaches. In writing it, I have gone ‘back to the future’ and revisited ideas that I shared in the…
Lucy Mottram is Waste Education Officer for Devon County Council. She is a trained teacher with experience working in farming, ecology and sustainability in the UK, Greece and Italy. She writes here about her plastic pirates project. “So you’re a rubbish teacher!” said the young son of a dear friend when I described what I did. And,…
Every half-term members of the Burnet News Club explore a different issue in the news. Teachers receive a fully-resourced 6-hour scheme of work on each issue, including inspiring multimedia news content and engaging activities which can be used across the curriculum. Each issue addresses important social and political questions, and presents different perspectives and ideas to…
Today’s post is an extract from a blog on the ECOJUST website. It’s by Pauline Verheij who posted it in February, before the global impact of COVID-19 became clear. As such, the opening section’s data are being overtaken repeatedly on a daily basis. The post makes clear that given the globalised nature of the wildlife trade, this is not just…
The deadline for features in the latest CJS Focus on Environmental Education & Outdoor Activities is May 1st. You can secure free space in this CJS publication in association with the Countryside Education Trust. Its readership, estimated at 100,000, is involved in countryside, environmental & wildlife conservation across the UK; many work in environmental education…
Here is a selection of resources that youngsters everywhere might enjoy and learn something from. All of these activities can be experienced without leaving home. It has been compiled by Henricus Peters, NAEE’s on-line journal editor: #DoTheRightThing Insects / minibeasts Buglife charity has resources on beetles, bees, butterflies, moths, and dragonfly The Royal Entomological Society runs National Insect Week each June…
Wednesday 22nd Update Happy Earth day 🌏 . Tuesday 21st Update c/o Jess Tipton: Today pm Climate of Emotions conference Wed to Sun Earth Optimism Summit Mon 27th after school Eco-Anxiety in Young People teacher training online eco-resources and events digest . The Economist Education Foundation (which is an independent educational charity) has a video introduction to the climate protests…
In his latest newsletter from Poland, David Oldroyd discusses the Drawdown Review, which details how we might limit global warming. There are two Drawdown scenarios. They align, respectively, with meeting a minimum goal of 2°C and a more ambitious goal of 1.5°C. Drawdown Scenario 1 is roughly in-line with 2 ̊C temperature rise by 2100, while…
Victoria Hackett, an environmental education consultant, explores how environmental education and literacy can be linked in work with children. Step 1: Create signs What is the first thing you see when you walk into an outdoor classroom? Is it a welcome sign? There is nothing more inviting than a welcome sign! A welcome sign is an…
We begin with some good news amid the virus gloom. The results from the 2019 Butterfly Conservation UK butterfly monitoring scheme show that butterflies bounced back last summer with their best year since 1997. Further, just over half of UK butterfly species showed higher population levels in 2019 compared with 2018. click here for the full results. Butterfly Conservation also has…