Explore

How will you experience, enjoy and find out more about your wild place(s)? How will you increase awareness and understanding? You might:

Travel extensively – walk, camp, bike, canoe. Is there a route, trail or stream to follow?
Visit at different times of day and night, in different seasons, alone or with others.
Sit, look, listen and feel – engage your senses.
Identify and learn about habitats and what lives and grows there.
Does it relate to the Local Biodiversity Action Plan?
Research the landscape, geology and cultural history.
Map your wild place. Highlight the features you think are significant – how are they connected to other aspects?

Resource Guides
Outdoor Learning
Surveys
Wildlife Gardening
Literacy & Nature
Biodiversity

For school groups
John Muir Award and the Curriculum for Excellence (Scotland)
John Muir Award and the Curriculum (England)

Getting outdoors with groups with additional support needs:
Accessible Outdoors
Carry On Gardening

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman, American Physicist