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Robert Lucas FSC CEO ‘Inspiring environmental understanding through first hand experience’

FSC Scotland

160,000 learners a year 75,000 of which are residential learners

What would say about being a citizen scientist?

• To trial activities which can be used to explore the curriculum outside (in a variety of conditions) as a citizen scientist • Consider how literacy skills can be developed in an outdoor context • Consider how numeracy skills can be taught in a progressive way outdoors

A world of words and numbers ….

Identify features: Geo-squishes or eye spy Participating in citizen science schemes means that you don’t have to design the sampling methodology

A world of words What 3 words and numbers…. best describe this place… How might this place change in 100 years? What sounds can you hear here?

Learning scaffold: Speaking and listening 1 : When others are talking you can’t be heard and don’t distract the viewer from watching them. 2: The above and when you speak clearly and can be heard when the video is played back 3: The above and when you look at the camera whilst talking 4: The above and you use technical terms in your explanation. Creating Videos

• Add in skitches (labelled features) Describe. Add colour coding sharp Participating in citizen science schemes means that you don’t Skitch annotations – have to design the teaching stimulation for writing materials

8 Numeracy organisers: A world of words Estimation and rounding and numbers …. Number and number processes Fractions, decimals & percentages Money Time Measurement Data and analysis Ideas of chance and uncertainty Significant aspects of Literacy: Listening & talking Reading Writing

Pie chart created outdoors from beach material

Tallying organisms, graphing and estimating energy in a quadrat

Impact on Plastics Environment Glass Participating in citizen science Paper/ schemes means that you don’t wood have to design the data presentation and there is lots more data to look at Time material takes to break down

Size of trees – measuring and estimating

Health and Wellbeing

FSC Scotland If you design the investigation it answers your question If the children design the investigation it answers their question Participating in citizen science schemes means that you help answer the big questions enquiries.sco@field-studies-council.org