The latest blogs from the Science Geek have been about our developing understanding of the Earth’s position in the cosmos in relation to other bodies and systems. The first, Geocentric Cosmology, was about the basis of the geocentric model which placed the Earth at the heart of things. The second, Copernicus, is about the science that introduced heliocentric theory. As ever,…
Click here to read about how one school inspired its local community to protect pollinators – there’s a video as well. Earlier this year a group of enterprising and creative Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils from St Alban’s Primary School in Hampshire won the Polli:Nation Project’s ‘Art with a Message’ competition for their ‘Pollinator Promise’…
1. NAEE will be represented at St George’s House, Windsor, this week, at a consultation with a focus on young people and the sustainable development goals. There will be a range of short presentations about what goal-related work is trying to achieve from across the UK with presentations from NGOs and schools about how they go about this important…
Today’s post is an extract from the Webwatch section of the latest edition of NAEE’s journal Environmental Education [Vol 116]. Bioblitz from the Bristol Natural History Consortium is a major leader in biological surveys. The Natural History Museum has produced a down-loadable guide to running a BioBlitz, and the National Trust runs similar surveys on its own properties,…
A new Activity Kit from Think Global explores the topical concept of waste food and waste plastics. It investigate the reasons why so much food is wasted and evaluate possible ways of reducing this. Think Global says: In the UK, there is now year-round access to a mind-boggling array of foods, transported from the furthest reaches…
1. NAEE is encouraging everyone with an interest in environmental education to respond to the global Call for Action from the Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP). Here’s a video to watch which explains the background, and you can respond to the call here and help shape the future. 2. Juliet Robertson asks: Do you worry about ensuring basic literacy skills…
Our Webwatch post on Wednesday featured some of the ideas of Harriet Marshall about the sustainable development goals in the curriculum. In particular, we featured her propositions that the SDGs can … bridge subject divides help schools reflect upon what they do and why be ways of addressing controversial and complex local, national and international issues…
This is how Harriet Marshall begins her recent exploration of Teaching the SDGs – 17 Goals to Transform Our World and Our Classrooms Since their launch in September 2015, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been increasingly taken up by schools as both an educational theme and learning tool. A growing number of teachers around the…
1. NAEE has published its Annual Review for 2016 / 17. You will find it here. The review sets out key developments in the year, reflections on the context in which our work is carried out, and commentaries on the 40th anniversary of the 1977 Tbilisi conference. It also contains contributions from Mya-Rose Craig, David Fellows, Melissa Glackin,…
The Forest School Association, the UK’s professional body and voice for all things Forest School, has launched a scheme for recognising Forest School Providers who are following good Forest School practice. This is the FSA Recognised Forest School Provider scheme. The first successful applicants have been added to the publicly accessible map and database. Gareth Wyn…