How poetry can help communicate science to a more diverse audience
This interesting article in The Conversation (April 11, 2022) shares the opportunities provided by using poetry to engage a wider audience with science. This includes new ways to discuss environmental change and the climate crisis.
The language of wildflowers
A lovely post from Grow Wild (5 April 2022) on how wild flowers are used for reflection, connection and remembrance. A useful resource for RME at school?
The snowdrop – we’ve been expecting you
This article in Scottish Pollinators (27 January 2022), describes the language, literature and culture associated with snowdrops, as well as the part they play in wildlife crime. As one of the earliest spring flower, snowdrops also have huge value for newly emerged pollinating insects.
How Britain’s favourite festive birds got their names
This article in The Conversation (23 December 2021) describes the names of the birds through their historical English speaking origins. This includes the robin, nuthatch, blue tit, blackbird, and turtle dove.
The Guardian is on the hunt for young nature lovers – do you know any?
Do you know a child (8-14 years old) who could write a winter piece about the natural world? The Guardian has posted (20 December 2021) that it is seeking submissions for its Young Country Diary series. The deadline for entry is Thursday 13 January 2022.
Scotland’s birds – Gaelic myths and omens
Scotland’s Nature (23 November 2021) article ‘Birds of Premonition’, explores how the Gaels traditionally viewed bird behaviour as predictors of future events.
Tell your story in nature competition!
The Tree Council along with The Week Junior Science+Nature have launched an exciting new writing competition, open to all children in the UK aged between 8 and 15. Your story can be a poem or a piece of prose and can be fiction or non-fiction. Closing date 25th November.
Have a go at nature journaling
Grow Wild invite you to get creative and connect to nature in their free, online nature journaling workshop, Weds 24th November at 5:30pm. You don't need any previous experience or artistic talent to get involved! If you are an educator, why not share these skills with the children you work [...]
