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EYFS activities – Education for sustainability: Branching out

For Sustainable Development Goal 15, Dr Diane Boyd examines how early years settings can introduce the topic of trees, and their importance, to young children

To protect, restore, and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss is the aim of SDG 15.

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Learning links

Birth to 5 Matters (2021, p37) ‘Early years settings can be communities for social justice and sustainability.’

Extension activities

Learning links

Birth to 5 Matters (2021, p36) ‘Digital communities (the online networks and social media that settings, families and children use) and children are active community-makers. They participate in and contribute to multiple communities.’

EYFS (DfE, p14) Understanding the World ‘Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.’

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