Press for Progress was the title of a recent blog written by by Katherine Mathieson, Chief Executive of the British Science Association She began: Today is International Women’s Day. It’s a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the achievements and successes of women throughout history and around the globe, as well as reflect on what more can be done…
This is a round up from Natural England of recent and relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items. This supports the Strategic Research Groups for Learning in Natural Environments and Outdoors for All in order to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve…
The latest edition of NAEE’s Environmental Education (Vol 117) is about to be published for members. This has been edited by Justin Dillon and has STEM as a theme. Its contents include: Using the farm environment for teaching science with Early Years and Key Stages 1 & 2 – Nina Hatch The Woodcraft Folk: our approach to STEM…
Can a school trip change children’s attitudes to nature? asks Lorna Fox, WWT’s National Learning Adviser in a recent COtC blog. The post explores the results of research which tracked 500 pupils aged 8-9 who went to visit a WWT wetland centre for a pond dipping session. Lorna’s post begins: “What was your best day of the school year when…
It’s world book day today and many young people all over the world will be going to school dressed as their favourite characters. There will surely be lots of Harry Potter, David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson, Tom Fletcher, Clare Balding (etc) and Disney (etc) characters as world book day becomes more about commerce than about…
Here are a few recent guest blogs on the Wildlife Watch site: Hear from our Wildlife Watchers Hear inspirational stories, advice and ‘wild’ ideas from our teenage and young supporters. They share how they spend their wild time, the conservation issues that they are passionate about and tonnes of ways that you can get in…
Did you know that … March 1 to 11 is Fair-trade Fortnight March 3 is World Wildlife Day March 5 to 9 is Waste Week March 9 to 18 is British Science Week March 14 is the International Day of Action for Rivers March 19 to 23 is Grandparent Gardening Week March 21 is the…
Last week we covered Ronald Rovers’ (broadly positive) views on Kate Raworth’s doughnut model of the human-biosphere connection. This is a link to what, Bill Scott (NAEE’s Chair of Trustees) wrote back in 2013 about the idea when it first emerged c/o Oxfam’s Discussion Paper, A Safe and Just Space for Humanity. This is what Oxfam…
If you click here, you can read the thoughts of Jen Baughan, the CEO of Solutions for the Planet, on her visit to the ASE conference in Liverpool last month. We were struck by this passage: “Two of the workshops that I attended were focussed on Environmental Education (EE) in secondary schools. The first workshop,…
Click here to read another round up from Natural England of evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items. This supports the Strategic Research Groups for Learning in Natural Environments and Outdoors for All to develop better coherence and collaboration in research and to improve links between research,…