Climate Action &
Sustainable Development
Step Outside, Make an Impact: Hands-On Climate Action For Students.
Give your students the chance to explore, investigate, and act in the great outdoors while tackling real-world climate challenges. Our field studies turn theory into action, letting students collect data and observe environmental change.
Turning students into climate champions - outdoors, hands-on, and ready to act.
Locations
Powerscourt Waterfall
Wicklow
Leinster Coastline
Experts in
Action Project
&
Action Research
Suitable for
Leaving Certificate
River & coastal options
Outdoors
Outdoors & hands on from beginnning to end.
Tourism, Land Use and Climate Change.
It’s not just factories and transport causing emissions; how we use land locally also affects carbon.
Investigating how human activity in high footfall areas affects carbon storage and identifying actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Bring your students out of the classroom and into the field to explore real-world sustainability issues! At the field study site, students can investigate high-use tourist areas and see firsthand how human activity affects carbon storage and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
Two Ways to Use the Field Study:
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Action Research – Students collect real data to base their Action Project on.
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Action Project – Students carry out a practical investigation and survey to assess a sustainability issue at a high-use tourism site. Investigating the impact on carbon sinks and identifying actions that can help reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Action Research = data collection
Action Project = the action itself
By protecting soil, sand, and vegetation at high footfall sites, we help keep carbon stored in the ground, reducing Ireland's GHG emissions.
Whatever option you choose, your students will gain hands-on experience, real data, and expert guidance, all while producing work that directly meets the Leaving Cert Action Project requirements.
What Students will do?
High Footfall
River
Students will investigate how human activity in high-use areas affects carbon storage by examining:
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Vegetation – identifying areas that act as strong or weak carbon sinks
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Soil – assessing soil condition and its ability to store carbon
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Riverbanks – measuring bank stability, erosion, and loss of vegetation
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Human Impact – recording informal paths, trampling, and signs of disturbance
Methods used:
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Quadrat surveys
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Soil sampling
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River measurements
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Photography
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Maps and field observations
High Footfall
Coast
Students will investigate how human activity in coastal areas affects carbon storage by examining:
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Coastal Vegetation – identifying plants that act as carbon sinks (e.g. dunes, grasses)
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Sand and Sediment – assessing stability and signs of erosion or disturbance
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Shoreline Changes – observing erosion, deposition, and beach movement
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Human Impact – recording trampling, litter, and pressure from tourism and recreation
Methods used:
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Transect and quadrat surveys
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Beach profiling
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Sediment sampling
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Photography
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Maps and field observations
Why Choose Us?
Fantastic Locations
Powerscourt Waterfall
Larch Hill Dublin
Toilets & bus parking
(a coffee shop at P/court)
Reduce Bus Costs
Let us come to you with our Mobile Unit. Make the most of public transport and choose a coastal study.
Safe & Supportive
Experienced outdoor educators
Inclusive and engaging activities
Specialist Equipment
Wellingtons
Clipboards
Data collecting equipment
Curriculum Focused
Field study designed to allign with the Action Project Titles.
