Explore Resources to Create a Wildlife Garden at Your School

WILDLIFE GARDEN: AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

Create and explore your school’s wildlife garden with students through this training course! Gain practical skills and nature-based resources to inspire hands-on learning, foster environmental awareness and promote biodiversity in your schoolyard.

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Course curriculum

1. Description and objectives
2. Structure
1. Introduction of Chapter 1
1. Nature education
2. Nature education's quiz
1. What is STEAM education?
2. STEAM education's quiz
1. Inspirational video
1. Introduction of Chapter 2
2. ACTIVITIES: How to explore building a wildlife garden with your students?
1. Soil's introduction
2. Preparation and protection of soil
3. Soil's quiz
4. Practical activity: Study the soil in your school
5. Soil Teacher Resource Sheet
6. Soil Student's Worksheet
1. Introduction: Mediterranean climate
2. The importance to save water in a Mediterranean climate
3. Water and Air's Quiz
4. Practical activity: Make a Home-made Weather Station
5. Teacher Resource Sheet
6. How to make a wind vane
7. How to make an anemometer
8. Worksheet 1: Anemometer
9. Worksheet 2: Pluviometer
10. Worksheet 3: Data recording table
1. Biodiversity's introduction
2. Resources, Websites and Apps for biodiversity identification
3. Biodiversity's Quiz
4. Birds: importance and Idenification
5. Practical activities
1. Make your garden wilder
2. 1. Build an insect hotel: Teachers resource sheet
3. 1. Build an insect hotel
4. 2. Build a Bird feeder: Teachers resource sheet
5. 2. How to build a bird feeder: Worksheet 1
6. 2. Build a bird feeder: Worksheet 2. Monitoring sheet
7. 3. Build a bird drinker: Teachers resource file
8. 3. How to build a bird-drinker: Worksheet
9. 4. Build a nest-box: Teacher resource sheet
10. 4. How to build a nest-box: Flyer with instructions
1. People's introduction
2. People
3. Thank you!

About this course

Free
2 chapters with theoretical introductions and practical resources.
More than 10 practical nature-based activities.

Instructors

Carolina Bloise

Course Coodinator

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With a degree in biology, Carolina has a long experience of more than 20 years in environmental education. She worked in different NGOs and other institutions all over the country, with several publics including students, teachers, families, city halls, among others. She has been working in SPEA since 2018 as an environmental education technician, where she coordinates educational projects in the Citizenship and Environmental Education Department.

Ana Esteves

Content and Materials Creator

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With a degree in Biology Teaching from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she has been a professor of Biology/Geology since 1994. She is part of the SPEA team as a teacher on statutory mobility and develops environmental education actions within school and public communities in general.

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Acknowledgements

Rodrigo Criado

Contents and Materials Creator
Cristina Hernández

Digital Course Layout Designer

SPEA Birdlife

This course was developed by SPEA - Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, as part of the Blooming Schools project, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme.

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WILDLIFE GARDEN: AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

Course curriculum

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

1. Nature education

2. STEAM education

3. Why to create a wildlife garden?

CHAPTER 2

1. Soil

2. Water and Air

3. Biodiversity

3.1. Biodiversity: Make your garden wilder

4. People