School Grounds
School Grounds
The easiest first step to taking pupils outdoors is in your own school grounds. Across the UK more than half of all outdoor learning takes place within school grounds.
The School Grounds Topic has some natural overlap with Biodiversity, Food & the Environment, and Litter & Waste.
It's Your Neighbourhood is our community environmental improvement initiative which we manage with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) under the Britain in Bloom campaign. It is based on the three pillars of community participation, environmental responsibility and gardening achievement.
A Pocket Garden is a miniature garden that uses edible plants, plants that attract wildlife, and that reuses something which would otherwise have been thrown away. Each year, we invite young people to send in their designs for a colourful and exciting environmentally friendly, pocket-sized garden. Pupils who send in the winning designs are then invited to build and grow their gardens to display.
Resources
This resource from Keep Wales Tidy gives children the opportunity to spend time in nature, taking in their surroundings and finding their own special space.
Create a comic strip about the story of a plastic bottle, a marine animal or anything else!
In this activity pupils will create their own code of conduct for their school grounds or local greenspace.
Two activities, the first is a simple activity from Keep Wales Tidy to help young children understand food webs. The second is an activity from Keep Scotland Beautiful for older pupils, where pupils create a food web based on local animals and plants.
Rachel from The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland explains how to build your very own wormery.
A simple STEM activity to help you estimate the height and age of a tree.
Dandelions are often considered weeds but they are a source of pollen and nectar for insects in the Spring.
This lesson plan, invites you to learn more about pollinators and create a pollinator friendly garden. This lesson has been adapted from a Portuguese entry to a FEE lesson plan competition.
A series of activities produced by NatureScot that help children and young people understand their responsibilities in outdoor environments.
How to get started with spuds including harvest and storage, varieties, and ideas for tattie activities.
To gain a deeper appreciation for nature and its rhythms through the seasons.
We share our environment with thousands of other species - what wildlife lives near you?
Apply simple maths in a practical context to estimate the height and age of a tree.
Use natural materials to create art, connecting them to the natural landscape. Finished creations are left to nature, connecting pupils to natural cycles. Adapted from a resource created by FEE.
This experiment will introduce pupils to the important role of trees and forests in the Carbon Cycle
