National Insect Week returns in 2022
Activities sheet
How to Build your own Butterfly Garden with Billyoh
For: Primary Secondary Whole School Adults
Lesson plan
Ask questions about local invertebrates and plan investigations to find the answers.
For: Primary Secondary
Activities sheet Factsheet
Free identification resources from OPAL.
For: Secondary
Activities sheet
Handling controversial issues - What’s happening to our bees?
For: Secondary
Activities sheet Factsheet
This resource, suitable for Key Stages 1 to 3, aims to develop knowledge and understanding of invertebrates.
For: Primary Secondary
Activities sheet Factsheet
Activities about dragonflies and damselflies.
For: Early years Primary Secondary
Factsheet Lesson plan
Online resources for school lessons using the fruit fly Drosophila.
For: Secondary
Activities sheet
Ideas for creative insect activities.
For: Primary Secondary
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
Activities sheet Lesson plan Podcast
Learning resources from the Linnean Society.
For: Primary Secondary Adults Everyone
Wasps and hornets, for their stings, a shame as they are useful predators of damaging insects in horticulture.
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