Did you celebrate Outdoor Classroom Day this year? Maybe you’re outside everyday and so didn’t need to bother to make September 30th special. We hope so! The C&NN says that Outdoor Classroom Day is a global campaign to celebrate and inspire learning and play outside the classroom. It builds on the UK’s Empty Classroom Day, and the…
Dr Luke Tilley, Director of Outreach and Development at the Royal Entomological Society, writes about insects. Insects are easily the most abundant and diverse group of animals, with over 24,000 species in the UK alone. They can be found in almost every habitat on Earth and are fundamentally important to ecology, conservation, food production, animal…
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Wildscreen, the charity behind Arkive, will be hosting events all over Bristol to coincide with its Wildscreen Festival! Witness the Wild includes pop-up and pedal-powered wildlife film screenings, street art and an open-air photography exhibition, featuring some of the world’s best wildlife photographers. There’s also an exclusive Awards Ceremony, the Pandas (the Green Oscars!) and a chance to get up close and…
The Institute of Outdoor Learning Conference begins today in Staffordshire and goes on into the weekend. The Aim this year is to explore the role of outdoor learning in tackling global, local, and intra-personal development needs. The details are here and we wish it well.
Think Global’s conference is on 13th October this year – today. Its focus is: How do we create a new generation willing to learn and act to make the world more just and sustainable? Faaria Ahmad, who is organising this event, says: “Despite massive challenges facing the world, there are many ripples of positive change happening across…
UNESCO and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-France), in partnership with Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and Tebtebba, is organizing an international conference on indigenous knowledge and climate change. It’s taking place between 2-4 November 2016, Marrakesh, in conjunction with the UN Climate Conference (COP-22). For information go to www.indigenous2016.org.
Here are a number of professional development opportunities for learning outside the classroom: Taking Learning Outside Delivered in partnership with Learning through Landscapes, Taking Learning Outside is ideal for teachers, early years practitioners and support staff who are new taking learning outside. You will take away lots of practical activities for teaching literacy, numeracy and…
Climate Action has announced that 6 billion plastic bags have been saved since the 5p plastic bag charge was introduced. It says that the number of plastic bags given to customers in England’s seven main supermarkets has fallen from 7.6 billion in 2014 to less than 600 million this year so far. Despite this, more than £29…
MyGardenSchool – learning with experts offers online horticulture courses and gardening courses by best-selling authors, acclaimed garden designers and RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winners. There are over 30 courses to choose from including garden design courses, vegetable gardening courses, flower arranging courses and more. More detail here.
Connecting Classrooms is offering a new professional learning opportunity for primary and secondary teachers in Scotland to develop their practice in relation to Learning for Sustainability [LfS]. This professional learning initiative by the University of Edinburgh and Learning for Sustainability Scotland in partnership with the British Council, is an opportunity for teachers to grapple with…
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has named the three laureates of the 2016 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): the Centre for Community Regeneration and Development (CCREAD-Cameroon) from Cameroon; the Okayama ESD Promotion Commission from Japan; and the National Union of Students UK (NUS-UK) from the United Kingdom This is the second…