Outdoor Learning Challenge - 3.6.20
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30 Days of Wild
This June, join thousands of people taking part in our annual nature challenge, 30 Days Wild! We want you to do one wild thing a day throughout the whole month: for your health, wellbeing and for the planet. That's 30 simple, fun and exciting Random Acts of Wildness. You'll get a free, downloadable pack of goodies to help you plan your wild month, plus lots of ideas to inspire you to stay wild all throughout June (and beyond!). For extra 'bonus' items, keep an eye on your emails for additional, fun activities, from instructions for baking hedgehog cupcakes to a beginner's guide to wildlife photography. To get involved, just tell us who's taking part.
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Outdoor Learning Challenge - 29.04.20
Wild Things have created a series of short nature based videos with activity ideas you can do in your back garden or on your daily walk. The videos are free to access.
The videos are free to access - with a wide range of activities, including foraging ideas, nature based craft, bird spotting & bird song.
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Spacex Satelitte
Track a group of Satellites as they move in formation across the sky this evening
A really exciting evening is upon us - Monday, 20th April 2020. Track a cluster of satellites as they move in formation across the sky this evening. Look west they travel from west to east at around 9.55pm.
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Wild Days
Welcome to Wild Days! We created Wild Days to help you stay positive, by encouraging your kids to go wild while your outdoor options are limited. Video Thumbnail Every day we'll be publishing a set of structured activities and video content to guide you through around an hour of outdoor learning that you can do in your own green space (in line with government guidance!). Each daily edition has been created for children aged 4-11 by Earthwatch Europe's scientists and outdoor learning experts, to help you utilise the greatest learning resource out there: nature. We're also delighted to have the support of many well-known presenters, naturalists and scientists, who will be contributing videos and activities throughout this project. They're guaranteed to inspire and engage your kids at the time you most need it.
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Farm to Fork
We have lift off! Today we helped launch the grassroots #LockdownLearning initiative with EatFarmNow and NFU Education. First up, we're looking to get the best learning resources across the industry to children who will be out of school. And beyond that, to satisfy a 'need for nature' during a time of restricted access, and to reconnect children and their families with food, farming and the countryside - all while learning about core topics. "Help! Three kids to homeschool!" Panic stations as schools closed saw me sending frantic messages to farmer-mum Sarah Bell. She'd been tweeting some fantastic ag-inspired home-learning ideas. A beacon of hope - and the germ of an idea. Farming and food production has fantastic alignment with education, in particular, STEM topics. The success of the NFU's Farmvention initiative and LEAF Countryside Classroom is testimony: they've both already been extremely popular in classrooms nationwide. As a highly engaging and easy way to teach these subjects, it has strong appeal for parents. And there's a wealth of amazing content across the industry. EatFarmNow's community nature was the perfect gateway to get it out there, showcase the Hero content, and come to the rescue. Within a day, a grassroots "AgVengers Assemble" crack team had formed to to tackle the #LockdownLearning challenge. A cross-industry farm-to-fork community effort, led by the EatFarmNow crew and NFU Education team. Farming, food production, cookery and horticulture, right through to nutrition, agtech, gardening, countryside, environment and life sciences. And there's an emotional need too. The panic about food availability and restrictions during lockdown are highly likely to reinforce the value of nature and food. Many consumers were already seeking more contact with Nature: in 2017, Pantone's Colour of the Year was 'Greenery'. Pantone decides on the colour of the year by reading the 'mood and attitude' of the global culture. Spring Green was chosen because it symbolises the "reconnection we seek with nature". The experience of other countries shows that consumers are likely to seek closer connections with nature and the natural world during lockdown. Numerous Chinese national parks uploaded virtual panoramic views of scenic spots onto streaming sites to allow Chinese people stuck at home to "cloud travel", and the Chinese are seeing a huge surge in domestic tourism to national parks etc post lockdown. With support right across the industry, and a host of farmers too, this is a real chance to pull together, and to reconnect everyone with our countryside. Can you help? To keep kids' minds sharp, to ease frazzled parents, to show the science and fun facts behind food production, to spread the word, and to help show the stories behind the plate. Huge thanks to all the AgVengers! Introducing the #LockdownLearning team - and please do join us, if you can.
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Eat Farm Now
Living in an agricultural area, it is fascinating to learn about the industry and gain insight into where our food comes from.
You can’t go to Kew Gardens, but the gardens can come to you!
On the basis that we only have one opportunity to go out and enjoy the great outdoors, why not have a go at bringing the outdoors inside?
The RSPB have a fantastic bird spotting recording opportunity on their #BreakfastBirdwatch which takes place every day between 8am - 9am. Why not have a go at making a daily and weekly tally of the types of birds spotted.
Observing the outdoors does not stop when it goes dark. Why not have a look at the Moon Phases 2020 by producing a Moon Diary. You will be able to chart the cycle of the moon from a full moon to a new moon.
