We have focused on the two most recent issues of Canada’s Green Teacher recently. If you want to see the back issues, you can do so here. They run from Vol 130 to Vol 33 (back in 1993) The recently published issues all have two freely available articles in them, but the rest are available…
Today’s post is by Richard Jurin who, before his retirement, ran the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, launching a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. Today he writes about about human involvement in forest fires in the USA. As ever, with our…
John Burton – Conservation veteran John Burton, co-founder with his wife, Viv, of the World Land Trust – died on Biodiversity Day. You can read an appreciation of his life here. . Working Report – The Sustainability and Climate Change Education Working Group is a collaboration between Leeds Trinity University and the Teacher Development Trust. It brings together expertise across nursery, primary, secondary and higher education…
Today’s post is by Marina Robb, the founder and managing director of Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC and The Outdoor Teacher Ltd, organisations that aim to transform education and health through nature. Marina has written (with Jon Cree) The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy (2021) and (with Victoria Mew and Anna Richardson)…
EIS Webinars – The Educational Institute of Scotland says make learning for sustainability your new academic year’s resolution. The Institute is running Putting Learning for Sustainability at the heart of practice professional learning webinars in September. You can choose from early years, primary and secondary. . Earth Echo – If you are or know a young (13-25) environmental leader that wants…
The Summer edition of Canada’s Green Teacher magazine (Vol 132) is now available. The bulk of this issue is dedicated to wild native bees and it has been produced in partnerships with Friends of the Earth Canada. There are two freely available articles: Leaf Your Devices at Home by Britta MooreA lesson plan to combat plant blindness The Lives…
Gaia + James Lovelock died last week on his 103rd birthday. Here is the obituary from the Guardian. He will be forever associated with the Gaia theory of a self-regulating Earth, but his achievements were much wider than this through his inventions and experiments. For example, he alerted the world to the presence of CFC gases in the atmosphere although he…
Today’s post is by Mary Colwell the author and activist who did so much to bring OCR’s natural history GCSE to fruition. Mary is Director of Curlew Action and the author of Beak, Tooth and Claw – Living with predators in Britain (William Collins 2021), Curlew Moon (William Collins 2018), and John Muir – the Scotsman who…
A response to the DfE Strategy written by co-chairs of the UK Schools Sustainability Network operations group, Helen Burge (Priory Learning Trust, Somerset) and Paul Edmond (Heart Academies Trust, Beds), is on the Education Executive website. The UKSSN Ops Group was founded after COP26 in order to bring together the voices of school business leaders who are key to…
A research team from the UK and Ireland have a paper in the journal Ecology and Evolution which explores “the botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness”. This is the Abstract: “Civilization is dependent upon plants for survival. Plants permeate our every moment and our relationship with them will dictate how we will…
Letters to the UN – Manchester University’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (in collaboration with Save the Children UK and UK-Med) ran a competition for UK school children to write a speech or letter, addressed to the UN, on the climate emergency. They were asked to focus on: How is climate change affecting you and what actions, initiatives, and policies should…
Vol 131 of Canada’s Green Teacher magazine is now available. There are two freely available articles: Green Buddhism by John NegruAn introduction Navigating Inquiry-Based Instruction by Pamela ChinThe “Four Cs” in a middle school ELA classroom ……………………………………………………….. Other articles (available only to subscribers though you can read the abstracts) are: Where’s the future in teaching? by David FernsPreparing…