Earth System Education - Are We There Yet?

Paul Anderson from Bozeman Science - Planetary Boundaries links Earth Science with Sustainability through Earth System Science.
Video 1 in the 'AP Environmental Science' series at Paul Andersen's Bozeman Science.

Link to Earth System Education review post. If you teach senior secondary Earth and Environmental Science or Geography and haven't heard of Planetary Boundaries and Earth System Science as an approach to sustainability then you may be in for a pleasant surprise. 

There's No Such Place as Away, There's No Such Place as Away ...

And where is this place they call 'Away'? 

Link to purchase ‘There is No Such Place as Away’ (credit card or PayPal) 16 pp Colour PDF from AAEE ($12). Or email admin@aaee.org.au Extensive teaching notes and free ongoing updates and support through publication authors FoodWeb Education.  ‘There is No Such Place as Away’ provides an introduction and springboard for further investigation into the scientific concept of ‘matter’ and the ecological patterns and principles of matter cycles on Earth. When it gets down to it, matter is the ‘stuff’ of our lives, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in ...

Exploring Fungi - Integrating Biodiversity and the Arts in Primary Years 3 and 4

Link to Exploring Fungi downloads. The Exploring Fungi Unit for Year 3 & 4 is a new resource in 2020 to celebrate Biodiversity. This is a free 10-week unit written by classroom teacher and artist Alieta Belle with mycologist Dr Sandra Tuszynska,  funded by your AAEE. Lesson Plans, resource sheets and online presentations are all classroom-ready.

Abstracts - remaining open indefinately

Click here to go to the Call for Abstracts for both the Conference and Research Symposium.

A one day program is being constructed for an online event 30 September 2020, to be followed by a normal length event at the same time and place in 2021.

Autumn-Winter 2020 Update ACT Chapter HERE

Welcome to the Autumn-Winter edition of the ACT Chapter Update, sent every quarter to members, colleagues and friends of Earth, Nature, environmental and sustainability education in the ACT.

SDGs in education - a literature review and work in progress!

Image courtesy of RealLives, at reallivesworld.com and http://educationalsimulations.com/

Call for Abstracts - Open

Click here to go to the Call for Abstracts for both the Conference and Research Symposium