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Teaching resources

Free curriculum and lesson plans from our Education Team – to help you teach primary and secondary classes everything from biology to design.

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Lesson plan: Minibeast Trackers

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

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Lesson plan: Nature's Colours

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

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Lesson plan: Darkness Dwellers - Adaptations

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

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Lesson plan: Exploring Eden's Ecosystem

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

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Lesson plan: Positive Potions

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

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Lesson plan: Rainforest Adaptations

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

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Lesson plan: Learning with Leaves

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

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Lesson plan: Den Designers

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

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Lesson plan: Rainforest Arrangers - Identification and Classification

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

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Lesson plan: How drawings could save your life

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

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Lesson plan: Roving Reporters

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

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Lesson plan: The Great Fossil Hunters

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

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Lesson plan: Climate Response - Doers, Shoppers, Learners, Shouters

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

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Curriculum Plan: What will we learn on our Rainforest Adventure?

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.

Curriculum Plan: How will we rise to the challenge of climate change?

Created with our friends at The Harmony Project, this 6 week enquiry explores the causes and effects of climate change. Pupils will discover that we all have a part to play as we work together for the well-being of our planet Earth.