Creature Feature: The Arctic Fox

I got into Arctic foxes while we were doing a Senior SMARTIES class on BIOMES.  The first biome we discussed was the tundra. As our homework, we had to write about an animal and how it’s well adapted to its habitat. I chose the Arctic fox. So let’s get into it! This is an Arctic…

Creature Feature: The Capybara

The Senior SMARTIES have just completed a class on BIOMES and one of the things we did was that we looked at some of the amazing wildlife in different parts of the world. When we covered the Amazon rainforest, I found a really adorable creature… Y’all… I think this could be my new best friend!…

Sir David Attenborough’s Plea

This is the transcript of David Attenborough’s speech at COP26. It has given me a renewed sense of mission for our SMARTIES Biomes unit! Your excellencies, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, as you spend the next two weeks, debating, negotiating, persuading and compromising, as you surely must, it’s easy to forget that ultimately the emergency climate…

One Earth

What an amazing coincidence – we are commencing a unit on Biomes just as the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is taking place in Glasgow. COP26 is addressing the problem of climate change – their plan is to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. In order to achieve this,…