[Ellen Greene]

• How I would incorporate the needs of nocturnal species, especially those that rely on dark skies into school biodiversity plans:
• I would incorporate the needs of nocturnal species by first identifying with my students and or staff what species are in our locality. Following this we could brainstorm what would be helpful for the nocturnal animals. Ask students is there something we can introduce or something we can do / change to benefit our local species.
• I could give the students ideas of bat boxes or badger houses (I’ve done this before with some of the green schools committee). Perhaps the children could design a home for the badgers/ bats, etc.and we could discuss about dark skies.
• There were plenty of informative videos in module 4 about the effect of light pollution which we could watch to spring children’s creativity/  into play. They may come up with some suggestions as to how to help our local species.
• After deciding on what to do for our school plan we can reflect and see is it being beneficial.
• There are cameras around my school and we have seen badgers digging holes under our school on video footage. This was a great way to spark students curiosity and engagement.

[Ellen Greene]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I like how being in an urban area presents opportunities to make use of the space/ environment we have. There are so many good ideas there of things we can do to work on biodiversity and the effect of light in city spaces with students.</p>

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