This week’s featured activity is about the impact of climate change on the physical and human geography of the UK. The aim is to learn about the varied topography of the British Isles and which areas will be at risk of disappearing if water levels rise.
This featured activity is about ways to raise funds to fight malaria through better prevention, treatment and scientific research. Caused by a parasite, malaria kills over 2.7 million people every year. Our series of three resources helps explain what malaria is, how to treat & prevent it and encourages you to raise funds to help with malaria research, prevention and treatment.
The great thing about ARK’s is that they are spontaneous and give an unexpected lift to the day. Looking back to Autumn Agent D went blackberry picking with Agent P along a well known cycle track on the coast of North Devon. Cycle track? – it was more like a two wheeled motorway and some […]
Agent D found a few minutes to stand and watch the birds coming to feed in her garden recently. At first glance the garden was quiet but as she stood quietly what appeared to be just dead leaves on the trees were intermingled with a constant hopping and fluttering of birds lining up to come […]
So often reviled and meeting unpleasant and untimely ends because of our irrational but deep seated fears I present the ….humble spider. Now image that your arms and legs are attached to bungee lines all pulling in different directions, multiply by 2 and put your-self in a 70 mph wind! You are now ‘bungee spider’ […]
It was a grey and gloomy day in August as I set off for our Broadsands Beach Activity. I met up with a colleague and we collected one of our young people we were taking with us. The Sun shone on us as we arrived although we could see torrential rain sweeping across the bay […]
Malaria kills over 2.7 million people every year. The second in our series of three resources helps explain how to treat & prevent malaria.
Brookhouse Primary School in Blackburn, Lancashire joined Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible today. You can see where Brookhouse Primary School is on a map and read about their local environment here.
Help Us Tell Time Magazine That They Should List Dr. Jane Among Their Top 100 Most Influential People So We need Your help! To show how Dr. Jane has inspired young people across the globe we are looking for 80 young people from 80 different countries (catch a theme here?) to write in about […]
Christmas is over for another year and the great new-year clear-up is underway, at least in our house. When I think about all the wrapping paper, left over food, unwanted gifts, Christmas trees and all those food containers – that’s a lot of waste! So what can we do about it?