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Learning about
The Learning and Discovery Team provides high quality education services. Contact the team on 01433 620373 or email us
- Education services
Student and teacher resources and our environmental education centres - Education fact sheets
Curriculum-linked factsheets and resources for students and teachers - Family and community
Day and residential visits at centres across the Peak District
Earth Caretakers
Key Stage: 2
Location: Losehill Hall or your Youth Hostel/residential centre
Duration: Available as a full day
Earth Caretakers looks at some of the natural processes that govern life on Earth and how they affect our lives. We help empower children to take action for a more sustainable future. Earth Caretakers focuses on the natural world and, in particular, on energy flow, food chains/webs and our use of energy and materials. The programme is designed to:
- Increase understanding of the processes that govern life on Earth
- Encourage positive feelings for the natural world
- Encourage awareness of a ‘sense of place’
- Lead to positive environmental action at home and school
Learning Objectives:
- Geographical enquiry, knowledge and understanding
- Scientific enquiry
- Life processes and living things
- Materials and their properties
- Physical processes
- Sustainable development
- Citizenship and PSHE
To book ‘Earth Caretakers’
Please contact Kate Hall (01457 855487) our Learning & Discovery Administrator
To discuss ‘Earth Caretakers’
Please contact Andrew Battye (01433 622011) our Learning & Discovery Officer for Primary visits
Download the Risk Assessment for ‘Earth Caretakers’ (19KB) (pdf)
Download our Teachers Notes for ‘Earth Caretakers’ (157KB) (pdf)
