CPD for teachers: Eden’s Rivers – flowing throughout your school curriculum
- FREE CPD for Geography and Science leads, Visit Leaders and EVCs!
- Join us for 2 online twilight sessions and 1 field-based day.
Summary: From creative writing to fieldwork, explore how you can engage children in the lifeblood of their local landscape in a relevant and impactful way – from ‘the source to the sea’ of their primary school journey!
Be inspired and motivated to include The Eden and its amazing wildlife in your school curriculum – both in the classroom and outdoors.
For: Geography and Science leads to inspire curriculum development and promote impactful cross-curricular links; Visit Leaders and EVCs, to understand group safety at water margins (riverbanks and shallow water); those wishing to gain science and geography fieldwork skills in a river environment.
Did you know! The Eden Catchment is a unique and beautiful network of rivers, becks and lakes, stretching 80 miles from Hellgill Force to the Solway Firth. It is an internationally important river system and it is also under threat.
Outcomes:
- Knowledge of the Eden Catchment: What makes it such a special river system and the species that depend upon it being healthy; the impacts of land use, pollution and climate change; and how people are working together to make it a better place – for people and wildlife.
- An understanding of risk management at Water Margins (e.g. walking along a riverbank and working in shallow water)
- Developed Fieldwork Skills – geography (beside and in-river) and science (invertebrate sampling and identification).
- Knowledge of how to use Eden Rivers Trust’s creative and varied online resources to support learning in the classroom. Including in-class science investigations; fun films made with local schools; illustrated stories and challenges to ‘Act for Eden’s Rivers’.
- Inspired and confident to use and map ‘Eden’s Rivers’ in your school curriculum -including knowledge progression and core skills.
As part of our quest to encourage and support all of Eden’s schools to use ‘Eden’s Rivers’ within their curriculum, we will take this opportunity to gain valuable feedback and insight from participants, not least ideas for additional learning resources.
Please note that this is not EVC or Visit Leader Training and is not a substitute for, or take the place of Local Authority briefings/training on the management of educational visits.
Eden’s Rivers – flowing through your curriculum can support:
Geographical and Scientific skills and fieldwork * locational and place knowledge * rivers * human and physical geography * water cycle * habitats * classification keys to name living things, * identify and group animals, food chains (producers, predators and prey), * understand camouflage, movement and colour adaptations * Human impact on the environment, e.g.: negative impact on plants and animals; pollution and damage to habitat and flooding * Citizenship: to understand that their own choices and behaviour can affect local, national or global issues.
Programme outline
1. Introduction to Eden’s Rivers and fieldwork and group safety at Water Margins.
Tuesday 28th March 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Location: Zoom
2. Field Day
Choose either
Tuesday 18th April 9.00 am – 3.30 pm
Location: Kirkoswald. Site visits to River Eden (middle course) and Raven Beck
or
Thursday 20th April 9.00 am – 3.30 pm
Location: Kirkby Stephen. Site visits to River Eden (upper course) and Ladthwaite Beck.
Safe and effective field trips using your local river. A practical day, the majority of which will be spent outdoors. Topics covered will include:
- Planning and risk-assessing a safe field trip to a river – including both riverbank activities and in-river activities.
- Running successful ‘beside river’ activities, such as survey skills and using a key to create a sketch map; numeracy and literacy activities.
- Conducting ‘in-river’ fieldwork – covering river geography and river dipping (invertebrate sampling) in shallow water.
Both field days will start with an indoor session and include lunch indoors.
Please note, the field day is only available to schools within the Eden Catchment i.e. Carlisle and Eden Districts.
3. Using Eden Rivers Trust’s resources and including Eden’s Rivers in your school curriculum.
Tuesday 25th April 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Location: Zoom
Please note: To get the most out of the session
Further information/book your place
For more information and to book a place, please contact:
Tania Crockett, Learning Coordinator. [email protected]
Photo: Stuart Walker Photography
