This document provides guidance for teachers on incorporating conservation and environmental education into classroom activities. It suggests educational games, crafts, and projects focused on nature. For example, one activity involves having students search for and identify different leaves around the school. The document also discusses the benefits of constructing classrooms out of timber, noting it allows students to directly learn about sustainability from their surroundings and be surrounded by nature. Overall, the document advocates using hands-on activities to teach students to care about the environment and develop eco-friendly habits.

1. Conservation in the Classroom
A TEACHER’S GUIDE

2. Everybody knows the three core subjects – Maths,
English, and Science. But what about the fourth?
• Conservation and eco-friendliness is of key
importance to future generations, and young minds
should be encouraged to care about nature and the
environment around them.

3. Developing positive eco-friendly habits at school is
particularly important.
• Aids psychological and physical growth
• Develops instinctual and behavioural skills
• Improves cognitive development
• Battles the offsets of Nature Deficit Disorder
Learning about the environment:

4. Educational Eco Games
Print off and laminate pictures of different leaves (or use real
ones to make them easier for younger children to identify!)
In pairs, ask your pupils to pick one and go in search of it.
This activity encourages…
• Your students to know more about trees
• Lots of teamwork
• Use of adjectives
• Connection with nature
*Heidi Magill of Nature Links
The Leaf Hunt*

5. Educational Eco Craft Activities
• Create a crafts table. Teach children about recycling as they
work with wood and other art scraps!
• Use old leaves to make paint prints, in tandem with teaching
them about the lifecycle of trees
• Decorate your art board with painted leaves and flowers,
learning about their types and how they function in the
ecosystem as you go
Craft Activities

6. Educational Eco Projects
• Take part in Empty Classroom Day or similar national /
international events
• Partake in building a bug hotel project to teach the
importance of looking after nature
• Grow flowers with your class to encourage a connection with
nature
• Allow your class to read outside in nice weather
Eco Projects

7. The benefits of a timber classroom
• Provides an eco-friendly landscape
• Allows both staff and students to be surrounded by nature
• Gives a greater connection to the great outdoors
• Encourages children to learn about sustainability from their
surroundings
• The building becomes part of the classroom (with additions
such as a living roof)
• Increases educational performance*
*American Institutes for Research

8. The benefits of a timber classroom
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the benefits:
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