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Whether you work with a school or a church, run holiday camps or home school your children, we hope you will be inspired and encouraged.
Free Science, Faith and Creation Care resources:
The Education pack – inspired by the 16 themes that feature in Science Geek Christy and her Eco-logbook, about wildlife, climate, a fairer world and faith. The lessons are full of scientific facts and explanations, outdoor activities, arts and crafts. They tie in with the school curriculum – from English and Maths to Geography, Science and Art.
The Explore Creation pack
Church pack – suitable for Sunday school, intergenerational worship and holiday clubs
School pack – a workshop style resource suitable for 4-12 year olds
The Education pack
This Education pack for schools ties in with the primary teaching curriculum (UK) for science, RE and other subjects and links to the work of A Rocha and Climate Stewards.
Christy's journey
The pack can be used anywhere in the world, at schools, after school clubs and within environmental education programmes. All themes, scientific explanations and activities are internationally relevant.
In the pack there are sixteen lesson themes about science, climate, wildlife, social justice and faith topics. The themed lessons follow the book Science Geek Christy and her Eco-logbook. There is a lesson for each of Christy’s blogs, in which she explores big topics like climate change, food waste, plastic pollution and farming, but also rainforest wildlife, bats and echolocation, glow-in-the dark bacteria, whales and dodos. Christy writes about her eco-heroes, from Saint Francis to Greta Thunberg, and how young people take action to build a sustainable world.
16 lessons
The education pack for schools contains the following themes:
1. The carbon calculator (climate change)
2. Life in the dark: going batty
3. Life in the dark: underwater disco
4. Fossil hunting and bird migration
5. Worrying about tomorrow steals the joy from today
6. Eco-hero 1: farmer Nanning-Jan
7. Wailing whales
8. Tortoise soup and dead dodos
9. Eco-hero 2: Greta Thunberg
10. A holiday on a cruise ship: fun for us, but what about the planet?
11. Sloths: sleepy, slow and slimy!
12. Help, jaguars are being killed!
13. Throwing food away? What a waste!
14. Eco-hero 3: Saint Francis of Assisi
15. Hannah: the American girl who shared her home with others
16. City slums: places of horror and hope
The Explore Creation pack
The Explore Creation resources were created over the past ten years and were fully updated in 2021. They have been used at different UK churches and schools. They loosely follow Genesis 1, where God forms and fills the earth.
The themes are:
Life in the dark
Life in the sky
Life with leaves
Life in the water
Life on the land
Caring for life
Church sessions combine an outdoor explore with Bible stories, crafts and games. Schools can host the whole programme as a 90 minute workshop for all year groups, with themed ‘Life’ stations and a plenary about ‘Caring for life’ at the end. Both formats can be downloaded for free from the Resources section. You can suggest to the participants that they read the eco-adventure novel Science Geek Christy and her Eco Logbook alongside the programme, or run a Science Geek Christy book club.
Praise from teachers and students who have used the packs:
“Lots of fun facts. Kids love science, and I learned a lot too!”
“Fits in perfectly with the children’s level of understanding and experience.”
“Wonderful how RE and the Bible have a place in this pack.”
“Interesting tasks and challenges, e.g. make your own dinosaur bones.”
“Really helpful that we can pick and mix and use the resource however we like.”
“Fantastic how this cross-curricular pack is written from a Christian perspective, with very relevant themes and great graphic design.”
How can I download the resources?
Before you can download the free resources you will need to register. You will receive an email with a link to access the lessons, the teachers/leaders manual and other resources.