Teaching resources

This lesson plan allows pupils to explore their natural environment looking for minibeasts.

This outdoor activity will see pupils collecting coloured items and can cover everything from science to literacy.

An outdoor lesson in which pupils imagine the world without any light, drawing inspiration from the natural world.

Students exploring ecosystems and science communications will benefit from this lesson focused on the species in our Rainforest Biome.

Pupils will make ‘magic potions’ from materials found outdoors and build on literacy skills.

A science lesson challenging students to think more creatively about plants’ evolutionary adaptation.

Ideal for an outdoor-based autumn maths class, this lesson plan gets pupils using leaves to measure and calculate.

A practical activity during which primary school pupils make mini-shelters from natural materials. 

This lesson encourages students to research rainforest organisms, discuss and group them based on characteristics.

Pupils will learn to draw leaves, develop artistic skills and explore scientific ideas around human survival.

A geography focussed lesson which will see KS3 pupils explore how we use plants for food, medicine and materials.

Practical science lessons get pupils creating their own fossils, which they then learn to excavate and identify.

This will support young people to respond confidently to the climate emergency and in a way that makes sense to them.

Over half a term, we explore the extraordinary bio-diversity of the tropical rainforests - with specific focus on the Amazon -and how we can work together to look after it.

Started during lockdown, Found Words is collaborative project between Bridge Schools and the Eden Project.