Software for recording and visualising geographic data of many different types, that also allows you to view, manipulate and analyse this data. ArcGIS software is developed and managed by Esri. This software is usually paid-for, but it is freely available to schools. GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems.   

The variety of living organisms, such as animals and plants, in an ecosystem. Ecosystems are dependent on biodiversity to persist and to work properly, and we are dependent on ecosystems to function. The word biodiversity is a contraction of biological diversity.   

A chronic fear of environmental doom and a worry for what might happen if we do not take action to avert disaster in time. Also called eco-anxiety. 

A situation characterised by the threat of highly dangerous, irreversible changes to the global climate. 

Scientific work undertaken by members of the public, often in collaboration with or under the direction of scientists and scientific institutions.  It is sometimes called citizen science.

Refers to the resources and areas laid out in a classroom to encourage learning through play and exploration.

Teaching for children under five years old. 

The buildings and grounds of education settings.

Gross domestic product. A measure of the total value of goods and services produced in a country over a period of time. 

GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems.

Jobs or careers that contribute to preserving or restoring the environment. 

Habitat mapping is the process of defining habitat areas and wildlife features on your site, by recording data on our digital maps. This is done by children and young people observing what's there while an adult enters it onto the map with an easy-to-use digital tool. Guidance on habitat mapping can be found here. 

When mapping habitats, draw shapes that cover an area, for example of grass, to mark habitats on the map. You can also draw on the map lines to show things like fences and add points to mark things like birdboxes.

A biodiversity-recording app that allows children and young people to make and add one-off wildlife observations to our Nature Park map. It has AI functionality that helps them to identify what they've seen.

We'll be providing activities that help education settings to measure whether there's been an increase in biodiversity on their site. Increases in biodiversity take a long time to happen. The changes you make now may have a small impact in the short-term, over weeks or months, but will potentially have a much larger impact in the long term, over years or decades.

For this reason, to predict the likely biodiversity of an area, we'll be using computer models. These models will complement any actual measurements from your site. Using modelling in this way means we can predict further into the future. This helps us decide which habitat improvements will have the biggest positive impact based on data and evidence.

A trust responsible for a number of academies. It consists of members, which are akin to company shareholders, and trustees, which are responsible for governance. 

This is the account where all data collected by education settings for the Nature Park is stored. It's a public account so anyone can access the data. To submit data, for example about habitats, educators who register to join the Nature Park through this website will automatically get a login to the Nature Park ArcGIS online account with the same login details.

The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.

The collective term used to refer to the subjects Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. 

The Esri app that you can use to collect data about your site, including weather measurements, how shaded different parts are or how people feel about different parts of the site. This data is collected using a form with a series of questions.