It is @greencareersweek.bsky.social 💚 Check out our post full of useful links and an environmental careers story from @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social Did you have a #GreenJob before teaching? How are you celebrating this week? Let us know below! #GCW2025 #GreenCareers #GreenSkills

Don't forget if you are getting pumpkins to carve this half term why not make one biology themed so you can enter our competition! 🎃🏆

October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃 Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo! Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology

October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃 Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo! Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology

This week we have the tiebreakers for the Biology Week Spelling Bee sponsored by @rsb.org.uk There have been loads of phenomenal scores from across the UK! It’s definitely the high mean score since the competition started! #Biolobee @chatbiology.bsky.social

Happy #ChatBiology day! @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social is looking forward to #BiologyWeek and the final of the #Biolobee 2025 🐝 Have you tried any activities to help students learn vocabulary? And, if you are taking part, how are your Spelling Bee's going? Share and comment below #SciTeachUK

It was great meeting so many like-minded educators at #ChatBiologyLive a great buzz about the place and I certainly felt reinvigorated and reminded why we do what we do. Cannot wait until next year’s offering! #ChatBiology

WOW! Another gem of an article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @chatbiology.bsky.social #ChatBiology

We are back for 2026! 🎉 Some updates from us about our new format and a look back at Chat Biology Live 2025 💚 If you joined us what were your favourite takeaways from the day? Share and comment below

🚨Just a week to go until #ChatBiologyLive at @thesciencehub.bsky.social festival with Physics Partners and @RSC.org will be there too along with our amazing exhibitors! Still time to get tickets and a free copy of @cmooreanderson.bsky.social book! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-... #SciTeachUK

Thanks for your input tonight, please keep sharing! Excitingly, it's only 2 wks until our first ever #ChatBiologyLive as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival 📣 So many great sessions and an opportunity to engage with our awesome exhibitors! #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬

Just 2 questions for you tonight! Q2 focuses more on transition 🌉 What are you sending your prospective biology students away with or suggesting they do over the summer? #ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio 🧬

It's that time of year again where we are all thinking about taster days and attracting those A level biology students 👥 So let's get a thread together of ideas and top tips for anyone who's doing it for the first time or people who want to try something new! 🔍 #ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬

What an amazingly insightful post! There are some great links to A-Level biology here @chatbiology.bsky.social @mrsjmasters.bsky.social @cmooreanderson.bsky.social @stemybanda.bsky.social

If you enjoyed our eco chat on Tuesday why not book your ticket for #ChatBiologyLive on the 8th July as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival in Bedford! Speakers and exhibitors list here: share.google/l3I7BAzp9U85...

Overconsumption is out of control. Teaching kids in the classroom would be easier if it was in the curriculum but who's going to teach the parents? More importantly, who's going to stop the producers & make them pay? Great opportunities for debate. Link to #SDG12. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

And kids love this game, made by young people, for young people: PokokEd: www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/pokoked-palm...

@chesterzoo has some excellent teaching resources for all ages on the issue of sustainable palm oil: www.chesterzoo.org/learning-res... Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans! @LearnatCZ

Having the Sustainable Development Goals on display in the classroom and giving pupils the opportunity to read news articles and reports and then discuss which SDG’s are relevant (a colleague with Y5 - they were SO on it!)

I was using the #SDGs at an event today, always a great conversation starter. Fantastic to hear your display is still being put to good use 🤗 #chatbiology

Listen… hear what they’re excited or concerned about & work out how to turn anxiety into activism, show that adults have to feel their way too. ‘How you can save the planet’ is an inspiring handbook to share with them.

Weekly conservation activity, morning mile, gardening, visiting experts, a magnifying post for examining treasures, visible Eco board with eye catching & inspiring displays, updates in the newsletter home, using the smoothie bike to reward keen greens, (plus Eco-Day, ForeverFashion / Trashion Show)

Thank you so much for every single contribution this evening. Please do go and check out all of the fantastic resources that @ministryofeco.bsky.social have to inspire you and your students and do carry on sharing ideas on the posts as we'll be keeping an eye on them over the coming week!

Kick sampling the local steam for the river trust 🏞️💚

Now for our third and final question from our #chatbiology chat this evening and it's a good one! We'd love you to share creative ways to integrate environmental awareness in our every day school lives- this can be anything from assemblies to eco days- share your ideas below:

When learning about environmental issues it's good to listen to #YouthVoice to hear what action they want: such as changing school policy such as boycotting unsustainable palm oil, fundraising to support biodiversity, writing to MPs to demand change or running community events 😁 #chatbiology

Thanks for all your contributions to the #chatbiology chat this evening. Next up we have a question @ministryofeco.bsky.social about encouraging our students to take meaningful climate action and we'd love to hear what has worked with your students or what you'd like to try:

Thanks for all your contributions to the #chatbiology chat this evening. Next up we have a question @ministryofeco.bsky.social about encouraging our students to take meaningful climate action and we'd love to hear what has worked with your students or what you'd like to try:

This is a good place to start planning #citizenscience projects: earthwatch.org.uk/blog/citizen...

Anything to do with #CitizenScience where students collect meaningful data to share with academic researchers: e.g. the big garden bird watch with @rspb.bsky.social, frogspawn watch, river monitoring, butterfly counts etc. Outside, with nature & very meaningful! 🐸🐦🦋 #chatbiology

So, this week saw the amazing work of educators from across the UK showcased by @ministryofeco.bsky.social Tonight’s first question! 🌱 What’s the most impactful environmental initiative you’ve seen led by a teacher or school community? #ChatBiology

We are pleased to announce that #ChatBiologyLive has partnered with @thesciencehub.bsky.social as part of their Secondary Science Festival with Physics Partners 🎉 New date: Tues 8th July Tickets and more info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...

Some teachers integrate life cycle assessments within science or D&T but they don't feature as a specific topic in the national curriculum. I've always thought we should cover the LCA of chicken nuggets to raise awareness of the impacts to chickens & the planet 🐓 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can you help CLEAPSS with their poll? Just let them know how many labs you have 🥼

Join us in 15 minutes when we discuss the work of environmental educators across the UK. @ministryofeco.bsky.social @merylbatchelder.bsky.social

So, THREE members of the #ChatBiology team were invited to the Inaugural MoEE Celebrate Teachers event yesterday. Tune in to @chatbiology.bsky.social on Tuesday when we will be sharing what we learned from the day! @ministryofeco.bsky.social @merylbatchelder.bsky.social

Can you help CLEAPSS with their poll? Just let them know how many labs you have 🥼

Quick poll time, it would be very useful for our work to know how many labs you have in your school. Sadly we can't do this via a voting poll, so please just reply with how many labs (teaching labs + prep rooms) you have. Please also share this with others Thanks for your help in this 👍

Does anyone else do or know anyone who does Edexcel A-level Biology B? I am interested in others views on the 2025 paper they have just sat. @chatbiology.bsky.social

Join our free Southern (Salisbury) Teacher Network on June 19th 4pm to learn more about the Cambridge Advanced Nationals in Applied Science & Human Biology @ocrexams.bsky.social @chatphysics.bsky.social @chatbiology.bsky.social @chatchemistry.bsky.social www.teach.ocr.org.uk/teacher-network-events

We are so super excited for this! Join us on 8th July for a full programme of workshops, talks, stands, prizes, and a free copy of "Enacting Systems Theory in Biology Teaching" Check out the full programme: bit.ly/ScienceFesti... @bedfordcollegegrp.bsky.social @bedfordcollege.bsky.social

Tonight we are spotlighting one of our exhibitors for #ChatBiologyLive at the @thesciencehub.bsky.social #SecondaryScienceFestival It's @origamiorganelles.bsky.social 🧠🫀🫁🌱

Great article!

So, with #WBD2025 later this week, I spent some time constructing a #LEGO alethiometer ready for some #SingleBrickMetaphor #LEGOSeriousPlay on Thursday @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social

Thirty six blank tiles to be populated with single bricks by pupils on a given theme. This specific selection was curated by a Yr 8 class with the theme of Scientific Terminology. Each brick is a metaphor. #SingleBrickMetaphor #LEGOseriousplay #WBD2025 @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social

Mutation Mutant Mutagen #SingleBrickMetaphor #LEGOSeriousPlay #WBD2025

Lens Convex Refraction #SingleBrickMetaphor #LEGOSeriousPlay #WBD2025

Iron Haemoglobin #LEGOSeriousPlay #SingleBrickMetaphor #WBD2025

Thrilled to be partnering with @chatbiology.bsky.social and Physics Partners for the Secondary #Science Festival It's an amazing programme: Keynote: "Representation – a key part of inclusive science teaching'. Choice of a variety of hands on workshops & talks Book and info: bit.ly/ScienceFesti...