https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-teachers/schools-wild-challenge/

By Rachael Albon

@MrBedfordsClass shared his thoughts for this blog;

“I am often talking to the children about when I was their age (in the 1970's!) and as the years go on I do find that what I talk about is becoming increasingly alien to them. Like many of my generation, I spent my childhood playing in long grass, climbing trees, watching…

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-teachers/schools-wild-challenge/

By Rachael Albon

“Science is about thinking creatively to try to explain how living and non-living things work, and to establish links between causes and effects” STEM Learning 2019

One of the Wild Challenge activities is to build a home for a mammal. There are a range of options to complete this challenge from buying a bat box…

There are some things in life that often go unquestioned. Quite often, these are ‘good’ things. Things that, to many of us, would just seem to be common sense.

The importance of children caring for nature, would, I suggest, be one of those very things.

Equally, as researchers, advocates and conservationists, we know the importance of being grounded in sound science and basing our positions and practices on…