We had the absolute pleasure to welcome Emily and Tansi from Beaverhill Bird Observatory to our grade 5 classes today!
We learned about how birds fly and got to be close to a real owl. Tansi is a Great Horned Owl and she comes from Ontario.
#GreatHornedOwl #NatureLiteracy

Great snowshoeing today! Students spotted hare tracks (their back leg tracks looked the same as our snowshoe tracks!) crossed by a canine set. Based on the straight line, small size, and lack of human prints, we think coyote or fox. What do you think?
#AnimalTracks #NatureLiteracy #OutdoorEducation

I wrote about #NatureLiteracy in @theconversation.com
I open it with a spring-time queen wasp encounter in a kitchen. Look what I woke up to in my own kitchen! A GORGEOUS queen wasp (Vespula germanica). I fed her sugar-water.

Read here:
theconversation.com/heres-how-to... @uclnews.bsky.social

Guest lecture to 1st yr @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #Biosciences students today. I talked about importance of #NatureLiteracy & #NaturalHistory education for science, society & innovation.

Of 500+ students <40 came 😭 But encouraged by impact...

@uclcber.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their spring encounters with nature

This is a wonderful opportunity to get young people aged 8 to 14 writing about their encounters with, or in, nature. We can learn so much about how children feel about our natural world when we give them a chance to tell us 🌿
#NatureLiteracy
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We had a fantastic day yesterday @CapenhurstCEPrimary delivering #NaturalCurriculumPractitionerProgramme #naturepedagogies #tractorfun #natureconnection #natureliteracy @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #LJMUEducation

Myth-busting bats, newts and the economy vs nature protections | The Wildlife Trusts There has been widespread misinformation blaming nature as a blocker to growth in the run up to the Chancellor’s speech this week, writes Joe Keegan, public affairs officer at The Wildlife Trusts.

Great explanation by the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social on why nature does not block growth, in fact, it is the very foundation on which growth is built.
Misunderstanding around this is why we must put nature at the heart of learning 🌱
#EfES #NatureLiteracy
www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/joe-kee...

#EfES thought for today... 💭
The results of the DfE report on #ClimateLiteracy in Year 11s were dire, only 20% can identify what Net Zero means. But should we also have an education focus on #NatureLiteracy to develop the passion, knowledge & skills to protect UKs increasingly fragile biodiversity?