Life Based Learning ™
Delivering subject content through nine life themes
Life-based learning on the environment ahead of the times?
Last night David Attenborough, in the BBC documentary ‘Extinction: The Facts‘ tolled the bell on worldwide loss of habitat and biodiversity, threats to species and extinction of not just wild animals, but putting human existence itself at risk. Pulling no punches, Attenborough banged that bell to hell.
Unfortunately, while the message is not new, human impact on the environment is ever on the increase.
Only last week the Living Planet Report showed that, on average, global populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles plunged by 68 per cent between 1970 and 2016.
The Independent Tackling the extinction crisis is everyone’s responsibility – and time is running short
One of the nine themes of Life-Based Learning [along with Plant Life and Animal Life] is ‘The Physical World’. Children in primary school learn scientific and geographical concepts, knowledge, techniques and skills through their exploration of the damage to the world’s physical resources by human activity and the impact this is having on life and living.
Is it too much to hope that the national curriculum subjects can be rearranged to ensure our young children are prepared to meet the environmental challenges they will face as adults?