Resource Boxes

The Spey Riverbank and Dee Riverbank Resource Boxes

resource box

The resource provided teaching ideas for: 
History and Culture, Landscape and River systems, Natural History and Biodiversity, Field Studies, Science experiments, Art and Craft activities, Wildlife Project activities, Games and puzzles.

The resource boxes included: 
Users Guide (with lesson plans and relevant worksheets), Maps, Archive material, Photographs, posters, artefacts, CD Roms, Videos with synopsis, Sound tapes, Books and Teaching Packs, information pouches and a bag of river dipping equipment with bound waterproof sets of identification guides.

The Educational Resource Partnership: 
designed and produced the complete resource by sourcing relevant materials, writing lesson plans and worksheets, taking photographs, designing covers and labels for the boxes and
assembling a finished product for the customer.

Subsequently the Educational Resource Partnership:
have trained over 100 teachers and rangers on the resource.

Availability
Spey : contact SNH Aviemore
Dee: contact 3 Dee Vision, Scottish Water, Aberdeen

 

Jump to top

Quote

Press quote from
Helen Rowe, Dee-side Countryside Ranger:
“(The Riverbank) is an invaluable tool to help us encourage young people to take a keener interest in the environment around them and develop a sense of responsibility for it”.