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African Gardens - Send a Cow Schools' Area
The African Gardens pages in the schools' area of the "Send a Cow" website.
Vist the website www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardens
Becker Underwood - Slug Invaders web game
An interactive web game which shows how nematodes work in the fight against slugs!
Vist the website www.sluginvaders.com
Botanic Gardens Education Network (BGEN)
The Botanic Gardens Education Network (BGEN) promotes and advances the delivery of education in member organisations. They have over 200 members. Most are educators in botanic gardens and other centres of environmental education within Britain and Ireland.
Vist the website www.bgen.org.uk
Herb Society Schools Website
A web site designed for pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2 to use on their own or with support. With, a few pages for teachers too!
Vist the website www.herbsociety.org.uk/schools/
Little Rotters Composting Network
Offers free composting advice to primary schools. With the help of a fun character, Wendell the Wizard Worm, children learn about composting and form their own club of Little Rotters. A FREE handbook and website - www.littlerotters.org.uk - are a source of help and inspiration for teachers to set up and maintain a school composting club including educational links with the Key Stage 2 curriculum and QCA Schemes of Work.
Vist the website www.littlerotters.org.uk
Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto
Garden Organic is delighted to support the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto, which was launched by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills on 28 November 2006.
The Manifesto is a 'movement' or joint undertaking that many different stakeholders have helped to create and to which anyone can sign up. We support the Manifesto because we believe it will help to ensure that all children and young people have a variety of high quality experiences outside the classroom environment, as an essential part of their learning and development.
Garden Organic recognises the value of Learning Outside the Classroom and supports the Manifesto’s vision and aims. We have therefore already endorsed the Manifesto along with over 330 other organisations, schools and individuals by becoming a signatory.
We will be working with schools, local authorities and the many other organisations committed to providing an exciting range of teaching and learning opportunities outside the classroom.
To find out more, get details of all signatories and pledges received so far, and to order or download a copy of the Manifesto, visit: www.teachernet.gov.uk/learningoutsidetheclassroom
National Soil Resources Centre (NSRI)
Soil-Net.com is a free and compelling environmental Internet resource for Key Stages 1-4 providing teachers and students extensive curriculum-based information about soil. As one of the three major natural resources, alongside air and water, soil is vital to the existence of life on earth. Soil-Net.com will help you discover what soil is, the teeming life in soil and about the many environmental threats facing soils.
Vist the website www.soil-net.com
Organic Centre Wales - Schools Pages
The Organic Centre Wales works with organic farms and schools to promote understanding of food and farming amongst school students. This takes place through visits to farms, growing food in the school grounds, designing healthy menus and so on.
Vist the website www.organic.aber.ac.uk/schools
Soil Association Food for Life Programme
Many of you will have seen Jamie's School Dinners and have heard about the Government's new commitment to healthy school dinners. The Soil Association's Food for Life programme puts this into practice and develops a whole-school approach to food provision and education through:
- Food for Life Action Packs providing practical steps towards improving school meals.
- Food for Life Curriculum Packs providing a wide range of engaging and informative activities for both key stage one and two.
- Food for Life Workshops to engage children in healthy food and where it comes from.
- Visits to working organic farms to provide life-changing experiences for children.
We hope that the Food for Life programme will act as a springboard for genuine change and will encourage a 'food culture' within your school. It will tie in closely with the HDRA Organic Gardens for Schools scheme as well and Eco-School and Healthy School Initiatives.
For more details visit www.soilassociation.org/education or contact 0117 914 2440 or education@soilassociation.org
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