CLPL Courses for Teachers

Bespoke Secondary CLPL in your Local Authority

Contact us to arrange a date, time and location for a bespoke secondary CLPL twilight or INSET day in your Local Authority.

GeoBus have developed a number of workshops, 1.5 to 2 hours in length, from Monitoring Volcanoes to Generating and Interpreting a Hydrograph. Select one for a CLPL twilight, or select up to three to form a CLPL INSET day programme.

Bespoke Primary CLPL in your Local Authority

Using hand lenses to take a closer look at rock types

Contact us to arrange a date, time and location for a bespoke primary CLPL twilight or INSET day in your Local Authority.

GeoBus have developed a number of workshops, covering Earth science topics for the Primary classroom. Select one for a CLPL twilight, or select up to three to form a CLPL INSET day programme.

Out of this World – CLPL day for primary teachers

Next Course Date: Saturday 8th March 2025

Location: Bute Building, University of St Andrews

CLPL for primary teachers delivering CfE First and Second level science, technologies and mathematics. Workshops include: Sun, Moon and Stars – our solar system (and beyond); Mission to Mars – Getting to know our neighbour; and Mars Rover Mission Control.

A Day at the Beach – Sand dunes and model river channels

Transect set up across the dunes

Next Course Date: TBC

Location: TBC

CLPL for secondary teachers delivering SCQF National 4, National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher geography and environmental science. See how you can run practical fieldwork to investigate succession on sand dunes and how you can use your local beach or outside space to model river channel processes.

Earth’s Forces

Earthquake Building Challenge team work with a smile!

Next Course Date: TBC

Location: TBC

CLPL for secondary teachers delivering CfE social studies. Following the theme of Earth’s forces, take part in three exciting, hands-on workshops during the day: Introduction to Plate Tectonics; Earthquake Building Challenge; and Monitoring Volcanoes. 

Earth Science for the Primary Classroom

Magnificent Map Building

Next Course Date: TBC

Location: TBC

CLPL for primary teachers delivering CfE First and Second level social studies, science, technology and mathematics. Workshops will cover interactive learning on Radical Rocks, Magnificent Maps and Exploring Earthquakes.


River Fieldwork & Generating and Interpreting a Hydrograph

Measuring channel width

Next Course Date: TBC

Location: TBC

CLPL for secondary teachers delivering SCQF National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher geography, and Higher environmental science covering river fieldwork skills and techniques and the generation and interpretation of a hydrograph.

Rocks & Soils

Next Course Date: TBC

Location: TBC

CLPL for secondary teachers delivering SCQF National 5 and Higher environmental science and geography. This day includes engaging, hands-on activities to explore rocks and rock cycle processes, to examine characteristics of soils in the field and in the classroom, and to investigate infiltration rates of different soil types. 

Topical Earth Science

Ocean circulation experiment using hot and cold water coloured with red and blue food colouring

Next Course Date: TBC

Location: TBC

CLPL for secondary teachers delivering CfE social studies and/or CfE science. Take part in three exciting, hands-on workshops: Impacts of Climate Change, Coring Through Time, and Your Rock-Powered Smart Phone, providing practical ideas to use in your own classroom to engage students in topical Earth science.