Upstream Battle Professional Learning
Keep Scotland Beautiful are offering this professional learning opportunity for educators in the West Partnership The blended delivery programme covers source to sea litter, Learning for Sustainability and Circular Economy to engage young people in STEM. Starts w/c 19th September.
World Ocean Day Live lessons 8 June 2022
Check out the live lessons from Encounter Edu on ‘rock pooling’, ‘protecting the big blue’, and ‘climate, the sea & me’.
World Ocean Day Live 2022 8th June 2022
Encounter Edu have partnered with AXA Ocean Education and World Ocean Day for Schools to celebrate World Ocean Day. They are providing a range of live lessons and activities to help young people connect with and protect their local blue spaces.
Educating young people about biosecurity and threats to local seabirds
RSPB have supported the development of a Biosecurity Schools Resource Pack. This includes biosecurity education modules which have been designed BY school pupils FOR school pupils. These include some outdoor activities.
Marine Conservation Society resources
Explore our colourful corner of the ocean and the marine wildlife found here in the UK with the Biodiversity lesson. Find out more about humans' impact on our seas in Threats to the ocean, and how they could be key to fighting the impacts of climate change in Climate change and the ocean. Find [...]
A nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas
Concrete fuels climate change, however, this article in The Conversation (March 22, 2022) provides exciting new developments in the production of low carbon concrete which can work with nature and our seas.
Scotland’s coral reefs at COP26
This article in the Conversation (5 November, 2021) shares the COP26 spotlight on our cold water reefs. It describes how these special habitats are vulnerable to changing ocean temperatures, currents and greenhouse gases arising from climate change.
Beach school offers a different context for learning
This article in The Guardian (14 May 2021) describes a beach school in Cornwall which supports vulnerable children, where the classroom is the surf, the dunes, and the rock pools.