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Embed biodiversity into teaching and learning
Biodiversity initiatives can inspire your learners and help them become nature stewards. Find ways to weave your work into teaching, trips and time spent outdoors.
Make use of digital platforms and resources to educate learners and staff about biodiversity. This can include interactive modules, virtual tours of natural habitats, and edtech platforms that drive learning.
When learners learn good environmental stewardship, they learn that they are responsible for other living things and that they play a key role in caring for and protecting the natural world. This needs to develop into active participation in conservation efforts and sustainable practices. Pitch this in a way that engages your learners using a non-threatening, open and discovery-led approach.
Ensure that all of your outdoor spaces, including learning spaces, are designed and managed in order to increase biodiversity and maximise learning opportunities. Work in collaboration with your site staff and teaching and learning leads.
Incorporate biodiversity learning opportunities into the annual cycle of trips. For settings with little to no outdoor space, this is an opportunity to introduce this topic to your learners.
Expand your networks to include community groups, environmental NGOs and your local council. Collaborating with these organisations can help bring additional resources, funding, capacity and expertise to your biodiversity efforts.