Activities on Environment and Wildlife

We get many emails from young people asking us what they can do to play a greater part in the conservation movement, and so we have compiled this l...

Bees

With around 250 species of bee living here in the UK, these key pollinators make a huge impact on our lives - even if we don't always realise it!  ...

Bees: New lesson plans and presentation now available!

This brand new suite of 6 lesson plans is aimed at Key Stage 2, but is readily adaptable for Key Stages 1 and 3. Along with a PowerPoint presentati...

Better Energy School Awards Winners 2017

Full list of the winners of the Better Energy School Awards, for download as a pdf document.

Britain's Rare Flowers

Explore the UK's rare flowers, each section gives ideas about what you can do to help.  

Climate Change Update Part 3

The problem is already here In recent years, we have seen Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013, superstorm Sandy hit New York, New Jersey ...

Coming soon: The Young People's Green Awards

The Young People's Green Awards (YPGA) will enable young people to combine their interest in caring for the natural world with their natural talent...

Composting

The rubbish we throw away everyday is polluting our Earth. A lot of this rubbish comes from our gardens and kitchens and the good news is that this...

Conservation Education 24 - Rainforests

Imagine that you’re in a thick, dark forest. It’s very hot and sticky and the sweat soaks your t-shirt. You can hear the sound of wild animals all ...

Conservation Education 29 - Climate Change Update

A fresh look at climate change, a subject we last looked at for Conservation Education in 2006. Banner photo by Al Case.

Conservation Education 30 - The Problem with Plastic

No matter where you look these days, you're likely to spot something made of plastic.  It can be shaped in all kinds of ways, it can be really thin...

Could you grow your own home?

The idea of building with straw has been around for a long time, but in recent years, it has been something that only ecologically-minded Britons h...

Doomed? A video by Hanover Street Primary School

This brilliant film by the Primary 1 Class at Hanover Street Primary School was chosen as the Scottish Champion of the Total Green School Awards 20...

Environment

Our planet is changing.  We need to help it change for the better and we're asking for your help to do that!

Food: Fairtrade

It can be difficult for farmers in poorer countries to get a fair price for the food they produce; Fairtrade exists to address this issue. These...

Food: Farming and the Environment

As consumers we can choose to buy food that has been produced ethically and sustainably. These resources comprise a set of informative teacher n...

Food: Food Miles

The food we eat makes up about 30% of our carbon footprint.  Knowing how far it has travelled and how it has been stored is essential if we wish to...

Food: Food Waste

Around a billion people don't have enough food to eat, yet we throw away around a third of all the food produced. These resources comprise a set...

Food: Packaging and Recycling

Our food is packaged in a variety of ways, all of which have impacts on the environment.   These resources comprise a set of informative teacher...

Four more days to submit your sustainable dish ideas

What we eat not only has an impact on our health. Our choices can also cause significant environmental impacts.  For example, animal agriculture pr...

Freaky Friday Facts about plastic

Eleven top plastic facts 1.  16,000 plastic bottles are made in the world EVERY SECOND! 2.  500 billion plastic bottles are made in the world E...

Hedges

The Anglo-Saxon word for enclosure was ‘haeg’ or gehaeg’ and this is were we get the word ‘hedge’.

Help YPTE by recycling your old headphones thanks to Urbanz Headphones!

The waste we create when our electronic gadgets and gizmos either break or go out-of-date is a big problem.  Most e-waste (electronic waste) ends u...

Holiday of a Lifetime! (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch)

A film about the Great Pacific Garbage patch, made by students from Huish Episcopi Academy with help from the team at Explorium.  This is the first...

How is electricity made?

Film on how electricty is made.  Take a look at how we generate electricity using coal, oil and gas, hydroelectric power and nuclear energy.  See a...

New report on future energy use released

The National Grid has been looking at the future of the UK's energy needs. It has concluded that the number of plug-in cars and vans could reach 9 ...

New videos now available

The two new short films, made by YPTE are on 'How electricity is made' and 'Renewable energy'.  Please take a look!

Paddleboarding environmentalist highlights plastic pollution in England's waterways

If we used a time machine to fast forward ourselves 500 years into the future, what would the archeologists of the future be finding out about us? ...

Plastic found in tap water

New research published by Orb Media has revealed that 83% of tap water samples, taken from various sites around the world, were contaminated with m...

Rainforests

This set of lesson plans looks at rainforests, with particular focus on the Amazon.  Lesson plans are brought to life by the stunning images in the...

Renewable Energy

Find out about renewable energy, including wind turbines, tidal turbines, solar power (photovoltaics, solar heating and solar power stations) and w...

Scottish shoppers use 80% fewer plastic bags

A charge of 5p per bag has been charged by shops in Scotland since 20 October 2014 and in that time, stores have handed out 650 million fewer bags ...

Tell us about what you’re doing to help the environment and have the chance to win a £30 Go Ape voucher!

So, if you’re aged between 5 and 17 and feel you’re doing something that helps the environment, please tell us about it.  Examples might include: ...

The plastic-coated island where nobody lives

Yet Henderson Island, the largest of four islands in the Pitcairn Island group, has a human population of zero! Almost 18 tonnes of plastic, broke...

UK rejects ban on charge for disposable coffee cups

Taking its inspiration from hugely successful 5p charge introduced on plastic carrier bags in England in October 2015,  a charge on disposable cups...

Wave energy

Here's a fab video from our friends at Explorium showing how wave energy gets converted into power we can use every day!

Wildlife Areas for Schools

Schools that have begun to develop their grounds often invariably report that this has led to beneficial changes in the relationships, attitudes an...

Wildlife in the Garden

Share your garden with wildlife

YPTE and Corporate Sponsors

YPTE recognises and understands the challenge that sustainable development poses to today's forward thinking companies. Our non-confrontational and...

YPTE officially launches new website

This week, YPTE officially launched its new website at a Reception held at the House of Commons on 27 January.  YPTE Presidents Steve Backshall, Je...