monitoring

4thJuly 2024

Clear science for clean air – teaching air quality in schools

04.07.24|Categories: Events, Resources|Tags: , , , , |

SEPA describe how they celebrated Clean Air Day with an interactive day at the Glasgow Science Centre. Watch their Youtube video. Over 800 pupils took part in a selection of experiments from data mapping to throwing air pollution ping pongs balls in the 'Our Amazing Air' science show. Pupils have [...]

6thJuly 2022

Scotland’s Landscape Monitoring Programme

06.07.22|Categories: Resources|Tags: , , , , |

Scotland’s Nature blog post (29 June 2022) describes how landscape across Scotland it is monitored. It announces the publication of three new indicators: Urban Greenspace, Local Landscape Areas and Urban Vacant & Derelict Land, and shares useful statistics. This may be useful for Social Studies students at secondary and tertiary [...]

27thJanuary 2022

FREE workshops to discover more about Scotland’s amphibians and reptiles

27.01.22|Categories: Events|Tags: , , , , , , |

Saving Scotland's Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) are offering FREE 1 hour workshops on an Introduction to surveying Scotland's amphibians (9 February 2022) and an Introduction to surveying Scotland's reptiles (16th Feb 2022). These might be of interest to secondary/ tertiary level students, teachers and members of the public.  There are [...]