An Erasmus+ programme exploring how plants can support and inspire playful learning.
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Join the Green Schoolyards America team! We are hiring a Senior Program Manager and an Operations Manager to help us scale and grow our ongoing and future initiatives to bring the benefits of living schoolyards to more children across the United States.
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There’s a reason why the beautiful dandelion is the emblem of the @EUErasmusPlus Pappus project. Such a simple and yet immensely complex plant ♥️
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Our keynote plant, Dandelion - super fluffy artworks here in a Budapest school ♥️
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Pappus partner @playlearninglif 's article in @NurseryWorld this month shares the fun + learning found in the most humble plant, the nettle. So much you can do with them - find more playful things to do with them here: pappusproject.eu/play along with 14 other common plants.
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Is your school garden an ecological delight? Entries are open for the European Award for Ecological Gardening and Cat 2 is for schools. If you can show you support discovery, research and nature experiences, you could win €1000! More info here: naturimgarten.at/award-engli…
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We love this! Dandelions are magical, joyful, efficient and our Pappus emblem!
Time lapse of a dandelion flower transforming to seed head
Filmed over 1 month by Neil Bromhall
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Happy New Year from the Pappus team! Visit the website for hundreds of fabulous, practical, inspirational learning and play springboards, aimed at learners aged 7 - 16. Thank you to Daniel and Katalin, our Czech partners, for the wonderful image. pappusproject.eu/post/happy-…
This is such an important piece of legislation. The USA - California in particular - is really leading on using school grounds to ameliorate the effects of climate change and play a part in slowing it down. Challenge set for our @EUErasmusPlus partners: what can we do now?
Last week was amazing for California’s green schoolyards—and children! We’re thrilled the state budget now includes an investment of $150 million over the next three years to create green schoolyards at K-12 schools across the state. greenschoolyards.org/blog/20…
This PAPPUS story, adapted from a @NurseryWorld article and written by @JulesMountain has just been published on our website - lots of simple, quick, low- or no-cost ideas! pappusproject.eu/post/five-t…
Why play and learn in nature? @ChildrenNature Network have a fab, short video that explains why access to nature and natural play spaces in cities is so important: youtu.be/6JduwEa3dhQ
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Fab picture - anyone interested in learning more about blackberries, check out the @EUErasmusPlus Blackberry learning and play resources @PappusProject pappusproject.eu/plant-id-sh…
Super picture - wish we'd seen it as we were creating resources for the Pappus Top 15 plants - it's a great illustration. Find out more about blackberries with our Plant ID sheets, which include annotated images, facts and mythology and botanical details: pappusproject.eu/plant-id-sh…
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@PappusProject are looking for schools to pilot their new toolkit and with the announcement of the importance of this subject going forwards in schools, why not get your school ahead by becoming a pilot PAPPUS School
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#Teachers interested in using plants and natural resources in your teaching - free introductory twilight session for @PappusProject this afternoon at 16:00 BST. Book via eventbrite.co.uk/e/pappus-on…
And the huge range of Playful Plants resources in the Pappus project are a perfect springboard into learning and play in nature! @EUErasmusPlus
Tomorrow is going to be a BIG day for getting the message out that ALL children NEED NATURE. Please help us by using the #GrowUpGreener share @NaturePremium1 widely & keep plugging the message that this is what #LevellingUp looks like.
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