Secondary

How to Build your own Butterfly Garden with Billyoh

Activities sheet

How to Build your own Butterfly Garden with Billyoh

For: Primary Secondary Whole School Adults
Learning through Landscapes Invertebrate Investigations

Lesson plan

Ask questions about local invertebrates and plan investigations to find the answers.

For: Primary Secondary
OPAL identification guides

Activities sheet Factsheet

Free identification resources from OPAL.

For: Secondary
LEAF What's happening to our bees?

Activities sheet

Handling controversial issues - What’s happening to our bees?

For: Secondary
Yorkshire Museums Trust Minibeast online resource

Activities sheet Factsheet

This resource, suitable for Key Stages 1 to 3, aims to develop knowledge and understanding of invertebrates.

For: Primary Secondary
British Dragonfly Society

Activities sheet Factsheet

Activities about dragonflies and damselflies.

For: Early years Primary Secondary
droso4schools

Factsheet Lesson plan

Online resources for school lessons using the fruit fly Drosophila.

For: Secondary
Creative Insect Activities

Activities sheet

Ideas for creative insect activities.

For: Primary Secondary
Up close and personal with invertebrates

Activities sheet Factsheet

This time of year is perfect for getting children out doing minibeast hunt, creepy-crawly hunts, bug walks, insect safaris and invertebrate surveys. Call them whatever you like, basically, they all involve getting up close and personal with invertebrates.

For: Primary Secondary
Linnean Society Learning Resources

Activities sheet Lesson plan Podcast

Learning resources from the Linnean Society.

For: Primary Secondary Adults Everyone

What is National Insect Week?

National Insect Week encourages people of all ages to learn more about insects.

Every two years, the Royal Entomological Society organises the week, supported by a large number of partner organisations with interests in the science, natural history and conservation of insects.