Publications Catalogue

Education

Advances Poster Series

An innovative series of A2 posters which brings teachers up to date with the latest advances in a range of natural heritage research areas in Scotland.

Free teachers notes are available on request to accompany most of the posters.

	Scotland: A Little Piece of North America For most of its geological history Scotland was just a ‘little piece of North America’. This poster explains how Scotland was formed more than 400 million years ago.
	Who’s Afraid of a Bit of Rain? Who's Afraid of a Bit of Rain looks at weathering processes and soil composition. It describes the main types of soil found in Scotland.
	What’s Under your Wellies? What’s under your wellies introduces the huge variety for life in the soil beneath our feet, and explains the different layers of soil from the surface vegetation to the parent material below.
	Scotland’s Land Cover The biodiversity of Scotland has been influenced through time by climate, geology & soils, and human activity. Colourful, easy-to-understand illustrations portray how land cover information is collected and how land management affects landscape.
	Land Cover Change in Scotland Understanding how land cover has changes will help to conserve and enhance Scotland’s ecological and scenic difference. This poster explains the work of the National Countryside Monitoring Scheme, which has shown how Scotland’s land cover has changed from the 1940s to the 1980s.
	Mapping the Old with the New Satellite images improving our knowledge of peatlands. Find out how they are used and how they are helping us to value the ancient peatland resource of Scotland.
	Climate Change: The heat is Up and its raining The effects of current climate changes across Scotland. This education pack contains 15 lesson activities covering topics applicable to the biology, chemistry, social studies, geography, environmental science and science curricula.