Environment | The Arbor School

Environmental education at @ArborDubai, an ecological school based on the National Curriculum for England, from FS1 to Year 9

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Our students at @ArborDubai understand that is still time to restore nature and build a healthy planet for our future generations, so let’s continue to take action to #InvestInOurPlanet and make sure we have #EnoughForAllForever 🌍

#EarthDay2022

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We also created our own pledges to showcase what we will do to support this years #EarthDay2022 theme #InvestInOurPlanet. Take a look at what actions our @ArborYear4 and @ArborYear3 students want to take! 🌍🌱💧💭

@ArborDubai #EnoughForAllForever #Ecoliteracy

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Today we took part in planting activities to show how we can support this years theme #InvestInOurPlanet. It is important for us to see that we are working together and that no action is too small… Every individual person can make a difference! 🌱🪴

#EarthDay2022 @ArborYear3

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#EarthDay is everyday here at @ArborDubai and it is an opportunity for us to highlight our love for nature and continue to take small steps towards big changes! 🌍 “Happy Earth Day to you…🎵” @ArborYear4

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If you only had 84AED per week to spend, how would you prioritise spending it?💭💰 @ArborYear4 have been exploring the income of cocoa farmers, and how the choices we make in our community can impact what they earn! #EnvironmentalJustice #Ecoliteracy #GoodLifeGoals @GlobalGoalsUN

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When we live in a city as busy as Dubai, it is easy to forget that all of the bright lights can have a wider impact on other creatures 🌃… @ArborYear3 have been exploring how light pollution can have an effect on night time animal activity! #Ecoliteracy #ProjectBasedLearning

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Insect hotel? Insect Skyscraper? Our students in 2HH have been using ideas inspired by the city we live in to help them design ways that we could attract more insect species to our @ArborDubai biopark 🐛🪱🐝🐜🕷🐞 #CommunityThinking #Ecoliteracy #PlaceBasedLearning @ArborYear2

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This week @ArborYear2 have began designing how they would like to conserve the wildlife we already have in our community, as well as attract more! Take a look at how 2AP have used nature-inspired designs for their bird baths 🕊 #Ecoliteracy #CommunityThinking #LearningInNature

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Did you know that female cocoa farmers get paid a lot less than male cocoa farmers? 🍫 @ArborYear4 have been exploring how their personal choices could promote environmental justice for farmers in cocoa growing regions! #Ecoliteracy #EnvironmentalJustice

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Our @ArborYear5 students were working hard today, using real life data that they have collected from our community, to develop their design thinking skills 📊💡 #Ecoliteracy #CircularEconomy #DesignThinking #Inquiry

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Oh hi Peanut 👋 🦜… Even our animals were interested in what we were learning today. What an amazing environment to learn in! @ArborDubai #Ecoliteracy

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We are lucky at @ArborDubai because we do not need to leave school to have meaningful and purposeful animal encounters... we have them right on our doorstep! 🦔 What better way to carry out research on a hedgehog than having one in front of you? #PlaceBasedLearning #Ecoliteracy

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When do sugar gliders eat? How do sugar gliders fly? 🤔📝 @ArborYear3 have been formulating their own questions based on the resident nocturnal animals we have in our biodomes. They will be using their own questions to inform their inquiries! #Inquiry #Ecoliteracy @ArborDubai

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Before we take collaborative action to improve and conserve wildlife in our @ArborDubai community, we need to look for what is here ✅... Do we have the elements we need to attract wildlife naturally? What can we design and build to make sure this can happen?💭 @ArborYear2

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Do you know the difference between the circular economy and linear economy? 💭 Our @ArborYear5 students have been identifying characteristics and are almost ready to begin their #DesignThinking process! #Ecoliteracy #EducationForSustainability #CircularEconomy @ArborDubai

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How can we find out what wildlife exists in our community? By looking of course! 🔍🌿 @ArborYear2 have been observing wildlife over the last two weeks to see what creatures are living around us here at @ArborDubai! What do you think we found? #Ecoliteracy #placebasedlearning

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Who can guess the nocturnal animal based on their sounds? 🦇@ArborYear3 are learning how we can help the Arbor community understand more about the unique behaviors and characteristics of nocturnal animals... especially the ones we have here in our biodomes! 🦔 #Ecoliteracy

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Using magnifying glasses helps our students to examine what they find and gives them new things to think and wonder about. They can see fine details up close, like veins on a leaf from their plant fossil!🔍🍃💭

#Ecoliteracy #Curiosity #LearningWithNature #SeeThinkWonder #Inquiry

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Today @ArborYear3 became time detectives today and were unveiling their plant fossils 🍃🪨... Did you know that leaves are the most common part of a plant to become fossilised? 💭 #Ecoliteracy #ArborBiopark #ProjectBasedLearning

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A is for... Accurate! 📝🌿 @ArborYear2 have been using their ABCDE checklist to create scientific drawings based on the special plants we have in our Biopark. Can you spot the zoom bubbles giving you lots of detail?

#Ecoliteracy #ArborSpecialPlaces #FieldWork #PlaceBasedLearning