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Tag Archives | environment
Top Five Discoveries (10/7/11)
Find five new resources that you can use in the classroom, including animated maps, an exciting film, a comic creator for young children, a blogging tool and a great resource for data handling.
The Green Classroom
Yorkshire Water have developed a teacher-led cross-curricular learning resource called The Green Classroom for key stage 2 pupils that looks at the subject of water but uses key primary subjects like art and design, citizenship, maths, geography, english and science to communicate the key messages. There are downloadable lesson plans, workbooks and certificates on the [...]
Rainforest Rescue Challenge
Sky Rainforest Rescue aims to engage school age children with the problems facing the Rainforests by including a fun series of projects on the Amazon Rainforest in the National Curriculum. The Rainforest Rescue Schools Challenge helps children to understand how the things we eat, buy and use everyday are linked to the rainforest and think about [...]
New Teaching Theme – Saving the Planet
I’m pleased to announce that the latest Teaching Theme has been published recently. The theme is called ‘Saving the Planet‘ and includes resources linked to Superheroes and Environmental Issues. The theme includes: Lesson ideas and downloadable activity resources. Display material, with lots of new cartoon images which were created especially for this Teaching Theme. Educational [...]
New recycling and fundraising scheme
Terracycle have started a new programme for schools where all money raised through it goes to the school. It also teaches children about social responsibility and encourages them to think about their own impact on the environment. The programme is simple: a teacher (or a parent) registers their child’s school online and the school is sent [...]
Earth Week Resources
Today is Earth Day, a day designed to increase awareness of the issues affecting the environment, to inspire positive actions in individuals and business, and to begin the process of reversing the current climate change trend. www.healthyplanet.org/earthday.aspx The Healthy Planet Foundation has produced a set of lesson plans and resources for each primary year group, [...]
Support Your School by Recycling
Support Your School is a new recycling scheme whereby schools across the UK can raise funds for their school by recycling used inkjet cartridges and unwanted mobile phones. The scheme is completely free for schools to join and participate in, and at a time of under funding for lots of organisations, gives schools a new, [...]
Free Energy Display Meter for Schools
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and Partnerships for Schools (PfS) are running an exciting new initiative to get Energy Display Meters provided and installed into English state-funded schools, absolutely free. The meter provides real-time information about your school’s electricity use in an easy-to-understand format which can be used as a teaching and [...]
explore.org
explore is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Their library consists of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. explore features a wide range of topics—from animal rights, health and human services, and poverty to the environment, education, and spirituality. [...]
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