This is the second of two free articles from Vol 118 of Green Teacher. It is written by Maria Jeanneau and Iain Phillips. TO ENGAGE STUDENTS in environmental issues, we must first engage them in science, which involves them learning scientific literacy — the process of learning how to carry out scientific investigations, and about the community of scientists.…
Today’s blog is an extract from the Oakridge Parochial School Allotment blog From the Ground. This is an account of a visit to the Stroud school by David Drew MP, the Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It’s written by Gill Skeffington and is reproduced from her blog with permission. The original post has lots of action photos of the…
In 2016, Norway’s Parliament decided to revise all subject curricula and this was enacted in 2018. This involved Primary, Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary Education (both general and vocational strands). One aim was to reduce the content of the curricula, to better allow for pupils’ in-depth learning and understanding. Existing subjects are kept, but the content will be changed. Priority is…
This is the first of two free articles included in Vol 118 of Green Teacher. It is written by Malia Rivera and Tim Thomas. WHEN ELEMENTARY teacher John Paull welcomes a new group of students into his classroom the first day, he stands silently in front of the room gazing into a small tin container pulled from…
In a recent Circle of Life Rediscovery blog, Jon Cree asks in the context of challenging behaviour: How does the outdoors promote a balanced brain? This is how the blog begins: Challenging Behaviour – how does the outdoors promote a balanced brain? This was a question put to me on a play structures course last weekend. I had been…
The first London Climate Action Week will take place from today to July 8th. Climate Action is launching a Climate Innovation Forum at Hilton Tower Hill on July 3rd. This will bring together 350 leading policymakers, investors, business and sustainability leaders, cleantech start-ups, think-tanks and NGO’s from the UK and across Europe, creating insight, sharing failures and successes, facilitating partnerships,…
Kate Parker writes in the TES about how primary schools have worked with the Eden Project on an art project to bring climate change to life. This is how the article begins: The art project opening pupils’ eyes to climate change “Climate change can be a difficult concept for primary pupils to grasp – but one art project…
Children from the Robert Ferguson primary school in Carlisle have produced a video explaining climate change and challenging adults to do more about it. You can see it here on YouTube. . A recent report in Nature Geoscience shows that most water cycle diagrams used in schools are completely out of date. In an analysis of over 450…
The following data are taken from a presentation made by Alan Reid, editor of Environmental Education Research, in April. A Nature Conservancy enquiry report, presented at the 1965 Keele Conference, stated that funds being spent on research into the education of all our future citizens equalled the amount devoted to research on glue. Sean Carson said that in the 1970s the UK’s…
This is a review by Gen Upton of I Am Turtle. The performance of I Am Turtle by the Makeshift Ensemble on 30th May 2019 was luckily blessed by clement weather. Visually it was exciting! All of the props and set were imaginatively put together from reclaimed materials as befits a children’s play with an environmental…
NAEE, the Savers charity, and Heart of England Rotary invite you to the launch of the Cut Down on Plastics exhibition of children’s work at Holy Trinity Church, Broadgate, Coventry on Friday 28th June at 1030. Councillor Linda Bigham, the Lord Mayor of Coventry, will launch the exhibition. RSVP to gabrielle@back.f9.co.uk . The Great Science Share for Schools allows children to communicate something that…
This is an account of the visit in December by a Year 6 group from St Matthew’s C of E Primary School to Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses as part of NAEE’s Hugh Kenrick Days bursary scheme. It’s written by Foundation Subjects Leader Mr T. Etheridge. As part of their Geography work, Year 6 at St Matthew’s CofE Primary School, Nechells, Birmingham,…