What's New?

The Museo de la Ciencia in Valladolid has a new exhibition: Huellas, rastros y señales de la fauna salvaje de Castilla y León. Visitors will learn all about a part of the language used by nature to communicate with human beings.

Wildlife leave tracks and traces in nature that can give us lots of important information about the animals: they can tell us where and how an animal lives, what it eats, how it moves, about its habits and how it protects itself.

The exhibition aims to present and decode the traces that animals leave when interacting with their environments. Visitors will learn about mammals and how to obtain information from tracks, excrements, food waste, skins, skeleton, skulls and more. There will also be exhibits dedicated to birds, such as abandoned nests, replica eggs and wings, and colourful feathers. And finally, there will be a chance to make tracks in a sand bank and play a game using the sense of touch.

Huellas, rastros y señales de la fauna salvaje de Castilla y León will be open to the public until 21 June 2015. You can find more information here on the museum’s web page.

The theme for World Water Day on 22 March 2019 is ‘Leaving no one behind’.  To learn more about using water sustainably and the importance of water, use these resources from the World Water Day website.  It includes videos, a factsheet, educational posters and there are even real stories of how water impacts on different people around the world and the planet itself. (Image taken from the worldwaterday.org website)

School children and young people around the world are demanding that we take better care of the planet – with a strike in January 2019 and another planned for 15 March. On the TEDEd website we can see a video of the founder of the movement #FridaysForFuture, schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, explaining her case, and find more activities to do with our learners (Think, Dig Deeper and Discuss) to further develop the topic in class. (Image taken from the TEDEd website)