ENVIRONMENT
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Air Quality: What is it and why does it matter? Meet Jess an Air Quality Consultant and find out all about air quality. |
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Secrets of the Ocean with Manta Trust Meet Jen from the Manta Trust providing insight into the secrets of the ocean |
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Stop Dropping Litter by The3Engineers Join The3Engineers for a book reading of The adventures of Scout. 'Stop Dropping Litter'. |
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Meet the Marine Conservation Society Meet Rachael to find out about Marine life with the Marine Conservation Society |
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Remarkable Plants from around the World with RHS Tour the world through plants in a workshop that opens your eyes to an array of far-flung places and the plants that grow there. |
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Become a Water Wise SuperHero by Southern Water Learn how you can help protect the environment, rivers and wildlife and become a Waterwise water superhero! |
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Incredible Oceans The science and art of communicating about life below water: the go-to people for bright ways of talking about ocean issues and inhabitants. |
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Our EARTH STORY: Introduction to Geology for Primary School Children This Session is to introduce primary school students to the concepts of Deep Geological Time, the age of the Earth, and it’s formation; when Life appeared, and what it looked like; when animals appeared and what they first looked like. And then, when did we humans appear. |
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Plants: Parts and Functions Learn about the parts of a plant and their roles in helping a plant grow. |
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Types of Animals Learn about the types of animals and how to group them. |
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Lambing - Interview with a Kent Farmer Learn about lambing season and the birth of new lambs from a Kent farmer. |
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Live Lambing! Watch a lamb being born and think about living things. |
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Soil Painting Find out how to create your own soil painting! |
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What Type of Animal? Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals |
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Understanding NOISE! A workshop from the Institute of Acoustics, join in an experiment that demonstrates a solution to noise transmission. |
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Farmvention Sustainable Food Competition Create an invention to help British farmers become Climate Super Heroes and enter the Farmvention competition! |
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Make a pitfall trap An activity from the Natural History Museum, can you make a trap to collect small invertebrates? |
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Rainbow Fruit An activity from the Rochester Bridge Trust, learn about the variety of fruit there is and explore them using the story. |
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Mister Sandy and Mister Squawk on Hydrogeology Learn about the Water Cycle, and the importance of water while having fun with Mister Sandy and Mister Squawk at Geog Rocks! |
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Old tomato, new tomato! Use slices of tomato to grow more using this simple method! |
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Repurposed Plastic Plant Pots Do your bit for the environment by cutting down on plastic – instead of using plastic plant pots, repurpose and reuse other plastics. |
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Creative Creatures Use any arts and crafts resources you have to create a creature of your own. |
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Clothes Hanger Quadrat Make a quadrat to focus on the living things in a very small environment. |
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Felt Tip Flower Dye Use a simple felt tip pen to create an unusually coloured flower. |
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Germination of Seeds An activity from the Rochester Bridge Trust, carry out your own experiment to find out what seeds need to germinate. |
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Flower Bookmarks Recreate flowers you see around you and make a handy bookmark. |
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Grow Carrots from Carrots Use carrot tops to begin growing carrots of your own. |
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Make your Own Wind Turbine Reuse some plastic bottles to create and learn about the workings of a wind turbine in helping the environment by creating renewable energy. |
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Ecosystem Investigating Take a walk and make a list of all the living things you see, then go home and put them together like a puzzle! |
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Upcycled Art Competition Create an environmental art work using would-be rubbish and enter it into a competition to win a prize! |
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Women in Engineering – Water Collector Celebrating Women in Engineering Day, watch how a water collector can be made with found items…and maybe have a go yourself! |
Secondary
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Green Energy: Saving the World Hear from STEM Ambassador Rallou discussing green energy and technology advancements |
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Exploring careers in Marine Biology by Manta Trust Jen from the Manta Trust gives an insight into the role of a marine biologist for Green Careers Week 2023 |
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Rills, brooks, tributaries & streams: Pathways to a career in caring for rivers Ali from the Rivers Trust gives a talk about the different kind of know-how that can be used in caring for our rivers. |
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Working as a Coastal Detective Hear from STEM Ambassador Dominique, a PhD Student & Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton with a working background in coastal engineering |
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Incredible Oceans The science and art of communicating about life below water: the go-to people for bright ways of talking about ocean issues and inhabitants. |
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What is Acoustics? A video from the Institute of Acoustics, learn about the environmental context for a career in acoustics. |
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Practical Action: Regreen the Desert A challenge from Practical Action, develop ideas to address a real-life problem caused by climate change. |
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How tall is that tree? Contributed by Charlotte, this activity will help to workout how tall a tree is without using any equipment |
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Dandelions in different places Do dandelions look the same everywhere? |
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Reflection and your Place in the Environment Contributed by Charlotte, this activity will help to look a little deeper and explore ways of reflecting on our place in the environment. |
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Biodiversity on Planet Earth Brought to us by WWF International/Netflix and narrated by David Attenborough, learn about how biodiversity is key to successful continuation of life on Earth. |
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RSPB Wildlife Indicators An activity from the RSPB, learn about the declining bird population and how we can help. |
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How Plants Regulate Flowering Learn with Dr. Naeem Syed from Canterbury Christ Church University about how flowers regulate the flowering process to ensure we have the food we need and so that plant species can survive. |
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Back Garden Phylogenetics A video from Rodrigo Vega at Canterbury Christ Church University, learn how to build a phylogenetic tree, or a tree of life, using living things you might in your back garden! |
