New draft Experiences and Outcomes
within Planet Earth

The graphic on the right can be found on the ISE website. This is called the Science Wheel and provides links to the draft experiences and outcomes that were published in September 2007. They provide expectations about learning for ages 3-18.

The Earth as we see it doesn’t seem to change much. However, Scotland has been a desert, a tropical swamp, a volcanic landscape, an ocean floor and has gone through many ice ages. We know this from the rocks that are all around and which give us clues to Scotland’s past. In terms of what the Earth has gone through human history is but a blink of an eye in geological time. In this issue we look at activities and resources for the Planet Earth draft experiences and outcomes (not quite tablets of stone yet!) - Sustainability, Biodiversity, Climate & Earth Science, Weather, Melting and Freezing and Astronomy.

A fossilised beach of Old Red Sandstone from the shores of Lake Orcadie when the Orkney Mainland (near Warebeth) sat close to the Equator around 320 million years ago. Find out more about Orkney geology.

Planet Earth - Sustainability