Educational Resources

North Devon Geography.com - A selection of dowloadable teaching/field work resources that support the secondary school geography curriculum

Available though Biosphere Schools website

"People and Environment" - Developed by Devon Curriculum Services, this is a new suite of learning and teaching materials for primary schools focused on North Devon's Biosphere Reserve - its past, present and future. Supports the 2009 primary school curiculum.

Supplied on CD. Cost £50. Contact Matt Edworthy at the North Devon AONB and Biosphere Service

Sea 4 Life Key Stage 2 worksheets to support field work in different shoreline environments.

Rocky shores

Sand dunes

Information pack to celebrate International Year of Biodiversity (IYB 2010).  Produced by the UK National Commission for UNESCO it includes practical suggestions for how schools can celebrate IYB and examples of how UNESCO helps protect biodiversity in the UK, including case studies from UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and natural World Heritage Sites.

A hard copy is being sent to all ASPnet Schools in the UK and is also down-loadable from the MAB -UK website.

Hedgeucation - A leaflet with some simple activititees for children related to Devon's special hedgerows. Hedgerow bingo, food web game, scavenger hunt, hendge sounds, hedge postcards. There are also activities linked to science, geography, english language, art and history within the National Primary Curriculum. Leaflet produced with support from DCC, English Nature and Defra. 

Hedgeucation leaflet

Devon's Distinctive Hedges poster

Marine Biological Association MarLIN curriculum linked teaching resources

Cowrie - teaching materials developed by MarLIN in association with the National Marine Aquarium looking at life around wind turbines

MarLIN learning zone

Cowrie learning zone

Useful reference materials not specifically created for schools

Taking a step back - Article in UNESCO World of Science Magazine about adapting to climate change and sea level rise in North Devon's UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and our twin Reserve, Malindi-Watamu in Kenya