What Would Happen if Bees Disappeared?
What would happen if bees disappeared? Discover why bees are so important, how pollination works, and simple ways children can help protect pollinators.
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Environmental Activists and Indigenous Tribes Honoured in Animals Eco-Fiction
Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came is much more than a story from the animals’ point of view. It’s also “a story to save the Earth“! How does one story save the Earth, you ask? The story itself is about an increasingly concerning environmental issue – humans ‘developing’ land where wild animals live.
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Bees and Other Pollinators – New Eco-Worksheet!
The 20th of May is World Bee Day! It’s the day we acknowledge the more than 16,000 species of bees on this planet and how they, and other pollinators, provide food for humans and other animals, sustain biodiversity and help Mother Nature. In celebration of bees and all pollinators, I’ve created another set of WonderWorksheets
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Plastic in our Oceans – New Eco-Worksheet!
Plastic is a wonderful, useful, clever thing we humans invented and now can’t seem to live without. From bags that hold our shopping, to plant pots, to computer keyboards, to furniture, to pens, to containers for foodstuffs… It’s everywhere. But I was saddened recently to be reminded of how most of the plastic thrown away
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Back to Basics: 5 Fun and Easy Activities You Can Do At Home With Your Kids
Home-schooling has been an exciting novelty for many children and parents. But it’s been months since schools closed and if you weren’t used to being a parent-teacher, having your children at home and racking your brain for engaging educational activities can be taxing. And now, with a few more weeks of summer holidays looming, and
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New! Interactive Worksheet: ‘Trees in Numbers’
Trees are not only life-saving storers of carbon, creators of oxygen, and bringers of peace and greenery, but there are large numbers of them on Earth. Three trillion, in fact! Unfortunately humans are depleting them by 10 billion trees every year. And while planting baby trees to replace the trees we’ve chopped down is important
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4 Simple Things to Consider When Making a Video
You want to make a video… Perhaps of you talking about something you’re passionate about, reviewing something, or teaching something? Even if your video will be chatty and informal, it needs to be planned and edited to some degree, so your viewers will like what they see. Here are 4 simple things to consider when
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5 Tips for New Parent Teachers on Stress-Free Home Schooling
It was a huge ask of parents to home-school their own children during the lockdown period. But lots of families caught the ‘home learning bug’, and now more parents are actively choosing to home school their kids, because they’ve seen their children thrive. For parents, this always involves a steep learning curve on what, how,
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New Series: Science Fiction Station – Story-Based Videos and Worksheets
Looking for off-the-shelf home schooling activities which are fun and engaging, as well as educational? Introducing Science Fiction Station: A series of themed mini-lessons for kids aged 9-12, in videos and matching worksheets, all done for you. The videos and worksheets are based on the kids’ Science Fiction novella Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water
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Science Fiction ebook for Kids – Now Free on Kindle!
While everyone’s doing home-schooling during lockdown, I thought it might be a nice gesture to offer you my Science Fiction eBook, Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves, for free, via Kindle Unlimited. Like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids! Readers will love the “myriad of alien cultures”, and the “unique take on the humans
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