Live Lesson: Stories for Nature (Online event)
April 19, 2023, 2.00pm
To celebrate Earth Week 2023 Encounter Edu are delighted to welcome Piers Torday to talk about how to write stories for nature. Piers is a best-selling children’s author renowned for his Last Wild trilogy.
In this live lesson, classes will learn about the power of storytelling to inspire action to protect nature and biodiversity. We will focus on how animal characters in stories can make issues facing nature feel more real. This involves finding out how an author researches animals and then translates this research into an animal character’s voice and description.
The live lesson will end with a challenge set by Piers to create a short story based on a conversation between two animals. Classes will also be able to pose questions to Piers about his work, books, and love for the natural world.
The lesson is designed for an upper KS2 class (ages 9-11), and teachers of lower KS2 and KS3 classes are welcome to join the class if they think that the content will be fun and relevant for their classes.