A close up view, looking up at some green leaves and you can see a small lizard on top of one of the leaves

Virtual Workshop: Rainforest Connections

How are the rainforests linked to our lives and why should we care about their fate?

This Virtual Workshop addresses these questions and looks at how the choices we make affect the future of the rainforests. It's delivered as a whole class live session via your classroom computer and big screen.

Book a virtual workshop

Our virtual school trips are delivered online by a member of our Education Team just for your class. We’ll lead the session, delivering live activities, challenges and conversations with your class; supported by pre-recorded videos. We will provide all the resources and materials you need to support your learners in class.

Find the connection… this Rainforest Connections session explores the links between us and the rainforest and between the amazing plants and animals in the rainforest. By investigating the connections between plant and product pupils will understand how the rainforest features in our everyday lives, and how we can work together to protect it.

Workshop overview

The session begins by looking at how we use plants from the rainforest every day for food medicine and cosmetics.

Using chocolate as an example, we will look at the economic hardships some farmers face, discussing how we can help make a positive difference through trading fairly, contributing towards a living wage and helping people protect the forests.

Finally, we will look at how life in the rainforest is interconnected- how plants and animals form close relationships to build a beautiful ecosystem. Pupils will consider how we need to follow this example to create a better, brighter future.

Curriculum links made to geography (place knowledge and physical geography) and science (adaptations).

How it works

An Eden Teacher will be based in the Core Education Centre at Eden and will lead the live workshop. You and your class will be the only participants – it's just for you.

The Eden Teacher will introduce Eden and the session and lead your pupils through a mixture of presentation, film, short tasks, Q&A. At least one teacher will need to remain present during the workshop, either in your physical classroom or as a participant on the call if pupils are joining from multiple locations. We’ll ask for your help organising groups and selecting pupils to give feedback.

We’ll provide all the resources necessary prior to the session and ask you to make them available to pupils via individual devices or in hard copy – we keep this to a minimum.

The sessions are delivered via video conference using Microsoft Teams. We’ll send you your unique meeting details after your booking confirmation.

You’ll need a computer with the ability to join a videoconference with a webcam and microphone connected to or built into the computer so that the Eden Teacher can see and hear your class.

You’ll also a smartboard, screen or projector and speakers connected to the computer so that your class can see and hear the Eden Teacher.

Each event is only attended by a single class with a unique access code for each booking.
Sessions are delivered from the Eden Project in a location where no members of the public will have access to seeing the students on screen.
A minimum of two adults should always be present online, if Eden staff believe they are alone with the group they will end the call.
It is not acceptable for anyone (including school staff) to record visual or audio content, take screen shots or videos or share private information without documented permission.
If any pupils are joining from home rather than from the school classroom, participants will be held in a waiting room before the event and teachers are invited from the waiting room into the meeting first to verify they are teachers and to confirm the names of students expected in the session.