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Outspoken science teacher.
90% of Toots are about #EnvironmentalEducation, #ClimateAction & #Sustainability.

#EnvironmentaEducation thought for today..๐Ÿ’ญ

A crammed-curriculum means teachers & learners focus on retaining knowledge to get through assessments. It is a challenge to build in time for project-based learning & to create #changemakers. But if you do, you won't regret it ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฝ

Collaborative #CitizenScience projects make climate & sustainability learning come alive in school. #ClimateInEducation
https://youtu.be/CZux9VTS87I
Corbridge Middle School's SUDS (Sustainable Urban Development Systems) Project

YouTube
Peak smallholding.... homemade cider with homemade blackcurrant cordial.
My student drink of cider & black is reborn, it's delicious and just cost pennies (approx 5p per 1/2 pint for a little sugar and the energy needed to make the cordial) ๐Ÿ˜‹
Okay, I've joined #ProjectMushroom and have a new Mastodon handle... just need to work out how to link accounts ๐Ÿค”
If I lose you I'm also @[email protected]
The ABCs of #climate change by the journalist who put the Sixth Extinction on the map: "Climate change isnโ€™t a problem that can be solved by summoning the โ€œwill.โ€ It isnโ€™t a problem that can be โ€œfixedโ€ or โ€œconquered,โ€ though these words are often used. It isnโ€™t going to have a happy ending, or a win-win ending, or, on a human timescale, any ending at all. Whatever we might want to believe about our future, there are limits, and we are up against them." @elizkolbert https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z/amp
Climate Change from A to Z

Elizabeth Kolbert on the stories we tell ourselves about the future.

The New Yorker

#EnvironmentalEducation thought for today...๐Ÿ’ญ

My 3 appraisal targets are linked to climate & sustainability education. Bizarre considering the terms aren't in my job spec or even in the Sci curriculum for KS2-3.
We must prepare children for the future, even if it's by stealth!

"The 1.5C target is not a threshold beyond which hope also dies. Every fraction of a degree means an increase in human suffering and must therefore be fought for. How? With everything we have, to tear down the barrier between us and climate stability: the fossil fuel industry."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/20/cop27-summit-climate-crisis-global-heating-fossil-fuel-industry
The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27 โ€“ but hope must not

Every fraction of a degree increases human suffering, so the fight to end the fossil fuel industry must ramp up

The Guardian
As polling on social media is the thing to do this weekend ๐Ÿ˜‰ - here is one on #cop27 : in your eyes, is the outcome
rather a success
2.2%
rather a failure
97.8%
Poll ended at .

Today is #WorldChildrensDay.

We've worked with children and young people around the UK taking part in youth social action, supported by our Transform Our World Youth Engagement Officers.

Watch this update from Manchester: https://loom.ly/mc3BWKw

#iwillFund #NationalLottery

Taking youth social action in Manchester

YouTube

#EnvironmentalEducation thought for today..๐Ÿ’ญ

For all the potentially positive news from #COP27โ€ฏโ€ฏโ€ฏ on #LossAndDamage or that #YouthVoice should be in future policy, the devastating news is that there's no agreed plan to phase out #FossilFuels. For young people this is critical ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒ