Learning About Forests uses nature as a classroom. The project has already launched in 28 countries around the world and engaged over 700,000 students… and now, for the first time, young people in England can join the project too!
LEAFThere are a lot of other charities and organisations providing fabulous, free resources and project ideas that may help you work on our Biodiversity topic including Eco-Schools friends RSPB and their fantastic Wild Challenge.
RSPB’s Wild Challenge
RSPB’s Wild Challenges are designed to encourage young people to experience and help nature through a series of activities ranging from creating habitat heaps to going on a minibeast safari, each activity is easily adaptable and comes with resources to support. You can complete the activities as a class, year group or whole school and it is completely free to register. Schools can then work towards a Bronze, Silver or Gold award. Upon completion, each pupil, class or year group will receive certificates and stickers and the activities can be completed with a new class or year group each year, saving on planning.
You can register for RSPB’s Wild Challenge here.
Each year the RSPB also conducts The Big School’s Birdwatch, turning young people into conservation scientists helping to track the ups and downs of birds in every corner of the UK.
You can find out more about the RSPB’s Big School’s Birdwatch here.
BLUE Campaign
The BLUE Campaign was founded by wildlife film maker Fergus Beeley in 2014 to address the decline in biodiversity across the UK. The campaign is as simple as setting aside a small part of your school grounds to grow throughout the summer and studying the plants and insects in this area.
Find out more about the BLUE Campaign here.
Biodiversity Topic Winner, Eco-Schools Award Ceremony
Read about Heswall Primary School’s project ‘Extinction is Forever,’ the project that won Eco-Schools first ever Biodiversity Topic Award at the Eco-Schools National Award Ceremony 2019.
Read about Heswall’s Extinction is Forever campaign
