Earthwatch Educator Expeditions

Educators are helping Earthwatch to channel in-field learning directly into the classroom - inspiring in their students a vital commitment to a sustainable environment.

Do you want to inform and inspire your teaching and help your students to become the environmental stewards of tomorrow? If you are a higher education lecturer, youth leader or secondary school teacher (or studying to become one), communicating environmental issues to young people and/or teaching the sciences, geography or citizenship in the UK then you are eligible to apply for funded places on Earthwatch Educator Expeditions.

Participation on Earthwatch Educator Expeditions provides a unique, experiential learning experience, will put you in touch with important conservation research in the field, and increase your environmental knowledge inspiring you with new ideas to take back to the classroom.

On an Earthwatch Educator Expedition, you will join a facilitated team of educators and Earthwatch project research staff, participate in scientific research activities and facilitated sessions. You will assist in the collection of valuable data, share ideas with other like-minded educators and benefit from an experience which helps inform and inspire your teaching. Expeditions are challenging in many different ways and a fantastic continuing professional development opportunity.

2008 Jersey Educator Award

Are you a teacher or a conservation educator from the States of Jersey? Are you interested in refreshing your approach to communicating about environmental issues? Find out more...

Teachers in August 2007 on Whales and Dolphins of the Moray Firth. Photo Credit: Jim McManners 
During 2007, Earthwatch placed 24 educators on expeditions in the UK and Europe, including Dolphins and Whales of the Moray Firth and Baltic Island Wetlands and Wildlife.

"An excellent organisation with an important role in conserving the environment, but also inspiring others to do the same, particularly by providing these opportunities for the teachers that can go on to influence the young people of today into being passionate about the world in which they live and the importance of being able to manage and preserve it well."

Amy Parry, educator and 2007 expedition participant

Contact Us

To join our educators email list or for any queries, please email education@earthwatch.org.uk