These are usually based on working directly with one
class group for a period of about 1.5 hrs, for example, up until first break,
between first break and lunch-time or in the afternoon. All of the workshops
are environmentally themed and include a range of Environmental Education
techniques, catering for all styles of learning.
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Plastic Oceans and Bread Mountains: A workshop
exploring global waste and it's socio-environmental consequences
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This is a lively workshop in which the key aim
is to increase awareness of problems caused by waste, where waste is coming
from and what we can do with it instead of throw it away. Within the secondary
school programme this workshop explores the global waste crisis with the
students through real case studies of the problems our waste causes in
natural and social systems. It then asks participants to think through their
own contribution to waste and where this might have an effect in the global
system The session compliments geography syllabuses very well and in the
second part of the session students can be encouraged to develop waste
strategies that might be suitable for coursework investigations in this
subject. This is a really great workshop for any school trying to implement
recycling in the classroom and grounds. The session includes group work, role
play and independent activity and helps develop key skills in problem
solving.
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On a Road to Nowhere! Sustainable Travel
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In this practical workshop students are taken
on a journey through time to explore how travel have changed and how we have
got where we are now. It asks students to consider the role of travel in
their lives and how they could adopt more sustainable travel patterns and
what doing so would mean for them and the environment. It compliments Science
through examining the contribution of travel pollutants to environmental
problems such as the enhanced greenhouse effect. It also compliments personal
and social education by considering health and community. The session uses
the application of number and promotes skills in communication.
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The Heat is Rising! Exploring Climate Change and
Social impacts world wide
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Planning for change is an important skill for
young people today, this workshop helps understand the types of changes this
and future generations are likely to have to prepare for in light of climate
change. The workshop presents multiple scenarios and asks the group to
consider the resilience of each in the face of climatic impacts. Scenarios
are drawn from each continent of the world and involve differing cultures and
environments. This workshop compliments both science and geography
curriculum. By the end of the session the students will have thought about
multiple options surrounding climate change and understand that society has a
very big stake and influence in future climate change outcomes.
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Feed the World: Exploring Sustainable Food
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This is truly participant centered workshop
that looks at the values of want need and choice from an individual
perspective about food. Food is possibly becoming one of the more sensitive
and contested issue of modern life as we are increasingly aware of global
disparities and more health conscious in regards the impact on our own bodies
of the food we eat. As well as looking at these socio-physiological functions
of food there is a recognized need to reconnect the idea of food production
and consumption with environmental protection and enhancement. At primary
level food sustainability is a sensitive and difficult subject to broach
because of the displacement of the ‘choice’ factor in young children. At
primary level this workshop highlights that food is part of nature and
reconnects the personal relationship between food-self and nature looking at
each of us as a active agent in a food habitat. This workshop can be ideally
adapted for any school with a garden.
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Wild
Cornwall Workshop: Exploring Cornwall's natural heritage, environmental
change and conservation issues.
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There is so much about
nature to fascinate us, and particularly here in Cornwall. This workshop
introduces the participants to some of Cornwall’s natural heritage in an
imaginative and fun way. It has elements of gaming, creative play and above
all gives the participants knowledge and understanding to start to explore
their own environment and relationship to it at different scales. You may
consider running this workshop as part of a heritage festival in your school
as it can be tailored to focus on sites in your locality. It can also be
adapted for older students who may be considering a career pathway in the
natural sciences, giving them a
taste of the nature of conservation and environmental protection work and
issues around it.
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As well as the 5 off the peg workshops above GWYR can create specific environmental education workshops to compliment particular curriculu,m areas or practical issues that may be challenging you school. It is envisaged that through this special offer partnership your school would commit to a series of workshops.
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