Activities
Views on Natural Capital
This activity takes you through using a survey approach to investigate views on natural capital. It can be used to support students in designing a survey-based IA. The key to a good survey-based IA is...
Activities
Investigating Altitudinal Zonation in Switzerland
In 2019, I added a new activity to my 3-day ecology field trip. As we live in the middle of the Swiss Alps, I took the opportunity to investigate altitudinal zonation using a few indicators. You will...
Activities
Investigating Altitudinal Zonation in Switzerland - Data Plotted
Here is the suggested analysis and plotted data for the zonation study Investigating Altitudinal Zonation in Switzerland. I have shared a google sheet with the data and plotted charts. You may view...
Designing the Experimental and Practical Approach
Planning Your Ecological Fieldwork
Many of the practical skills in topics 2, 3, 4 and 5 are really best taught through practical work. I learned the skills needed to teach these aspects of the course while I was able to take students to...
Designing the Experimental and Practical Approach
Ecology Fieldwork Free
Practical fieldwork has always been an important part of the study of Environmental Systems. The course includes a practical fieldwork subtopic 2.5 which specifies the skills that students should develop...
Designing the Experimental and Practical Approach
Fieldwork Providers Free
While running workshops I have collected a few names of fieldwork providers. I cannot personally vouch for any of these providers but they may be worth investigating. Both Laura and I run field trips...
Activities
4.2 Water Conservation and Mitigation
In this activity, we will explore the relative benefits and challenges of different water conservation and mitigation strategies. Student Task Read the eBook section on Supply of Water, Water Conservation,...
Assessment
IA Topic Ideas
On this page, we are collating IA topic ideas. These should always be chosen after the Environmental Context has been selected. If you have ideas that we could add to this - keep them general, not specific...
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ESS Films and Media Resources
On this page, we have curated some recommendations for documentaries that we think support the development of environmental literacy in ESS. Some are pay-to-view, and some are freely available. Anything...
Review/revision
Revision: Answers to compare, contrast and distinguish activity
Both ESS papers may well contain questions with these command terms. On this page you will find some suggestions to writing about the main differences and similarities between the most typical concepts...