Urban Nature Project - for schools

Free CPD and outreach: CPD in May, outreach on Monday 3 June 2024.

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Free teacher CPD with the Great North Museum: Hancock as part of Explore: Urban Nature, a national project to engage with the nature around us in towns and cities. Gain skills and confidence to support your pupils as they find out about the wildlife living in the school grounds. We can offer this to a full school staff, a range of teachers from a trust or other groups at a time that works for you. We need a minimum of 5 teachers to run a session. The project is aimed at pupils from KS2 and KS3 and is very suitable for special schools or alternative settings as well as mainstream.

- Share and overcome your worries about working outside

- Try out different survey techniques and ways of engaging pupils

- Integrate working scientifically, try out some citizen science, try out nature art

- Learn to use apps and spotter sheets to support identification

- Find out about local organisations who can support your work

- Find out about equipment which you can borrow from the museum to use in school

The teacher CPD can be followed up with free outreach to your school on Monday 3 June 2024, where we can support you and your pupils to investigate the urban nature on your site. We can loan you equipment to support your work.