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The National Education Nature Park is a new scheme which will allow young people across the country to actively improve their school or college site for nature and the environment. The Climate Action Awards will reward the young people involved and will celebrate their work. This scheme encourages young people to implement actionable changes to their educational site through a range of activities. Young people will learn about ecological mapping and biodiversity recording as well as working with artists to connect better to the environment. The scheme is cross-curricular and therefore, young people will be able to use the scheme to choose activities and resources which interest them and allow them to find their future pathway.
The National Education Nature Park has been developed by a partnership led by the Natural History Museum with the Royal Horticultural Society, supported by the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Manchester Metropolitan University, Learning Through Landscapes, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the National Biodiversity Network Trust. The partnership is working with geospatial partner Esri UK who are providing the digital mapping platform for the Nature Park programme.
The National Education Nature Park is a collective of the UK’s leading institutions within their fields, with world-class expertise across schools and Higher Education, science research, and public engagement with nature. Responding to the urgency of the planetary emergency and the Department for Education's Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the way educators teach climate education and support young people to act and increase biodiversity across England.
The National Education Nature Park scheme has put together a pool of resources and activities to assist young people in learning about ecosystems and nature. These resources are also aimed at providing young people with the knowledge required to implement actionable change at their school site to improve nature and the ecosystem. Many of these resources highlight future careers in the 'green' sector and the pathways to attaining them.
Have you thought about the career opportunities available to those with a geography qualification? Take a look the videos below and hear from professionals about their role and how their geography qualification helped them on their career pathway.
Sam McAleese is an Associate Land Consultant at Mott MacDonald and she has had an interest for human geography since she was in school. Human Geography is the study of people and the environment. Sam uses skills from her passion for human geography in her role, where she works to gain access to and possession of land for projects and talks to those impacted by the projects.
Toby Robson works for Forest Research as an Environmental Modeller, where he looks into government research about forests. He collates and models data to help the UK predict how much carbon from the atmosphere is absorbed into forests and how this will change over the next 25 years.
Climate Change and Sustainability Consultant, Jonny Riggall is an Associate Director at Aether and he works with governments and corporations around the world, informing them about making better decisions to improve the planet.
These leaf, fruit and twig identification guides encourage learners to explore their site. They'll look closely and start identifying the similarities and differences of trees found in their outdoor space. Learners will ask questions and observe carefully to try and find the tree the leaf came from.
Use the downloadable guides to learn about how to identify different woodland species.
A green career can be any job, role or occupation that contributes to preserving or restoring the environment and our planet. It can be any industry, not just those seen as ‘green.’ Green skills are abilities, attributes, values, attitudes, knowledge, and technical skills needed to adapt services, processes and procedures to support climate change.
The National Education Nature Park aims to give young people the knowledge to pursue a green career relating to their passions, from ecologists and engineers to artists and educators.
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Did you know that your Nature Park activities and experiences can lead to an exciting career? There are many jobs that use these skills and a lot of ways to get into a ‘green career’.
Take a look at the downloadable posters to learn about the pathways into a green career.
