A story about a young hedgehog on his first trip outside his home and how he uses his senses to explore the world around him. [English & Welsh language versions]
A short engaging video (3:45min) introducing the bird superhighway! Focusing on the East Atlantic Highway with includes the UK and birds such as Arctic tern, Swift and Manx Shearwater.
Why not use it to introduce our migration lesson /teaching-resource/migration-lesson-12216314
This June, celebrate all the ways your school has helped to protect and restore nature by holding an open day. Download this toolkit for more info, templates and ideas including templates for press releases and letters to your local MP.
Great for PSHE and persuasion in English. This resource requires children to debate how a pot of money should be allocated to saving a range of species. How do they justify where the resources are spent? Can there be a perfect decision which makes everyone happy? What does a compromise look and feel like?
By tracking the migration journeys of various birds, children can explore the reasons why birds might migrate which encourages conversation and comparrison between differing climates etc. The lesson explores the countries, continents and oceans that are crossed the hazards they face which drives discussion around human and physical geography. There is also the opportunity to estimate the distances travelled.
why not introduce this subject with a short film. /teaching-resource/introducing-bird-migration-13023169
Discover a world of variety in the world around you. Create smelly cocktails with natural objects. Will season and location affect the natural objects you discover and the scents you create?
Explore a variety of media and materials that allow you to create leaf rubbings. Provide tools for children to demonstrate the variety in shape, size and texture of natural items such as leaves.
Let’s Talk Nature.
A Welsh bilingual series of three A4 activity sheets each showing different scenes that provoke thought for conversation, language and vocabulary development.
Use these to develop early language and confidence as well as observation skills. Perfect for Early Years and KS1.
Use wonderful words to describe what you see in a woodland scene.
Use positional language to say where the wildlife you can see is in a garden scene.
Use super sentences to talk about the wildlife in the urban school scene. Are any of the animals the same or different to the wildlife found where you live?
Let’s Talk Nature.
A series of three A4 activity sheets each showing different scenes that provoke thought for conversation, language and vocabulary development.
Use these to develop early language and confidence as well as observation skills. Perfect for Early Years and KS1.
Use wonderful words to describe what you see in a woodland scene.
Use positional language to say where the wildlife you can see is in a garden scene.
Use super sentences to talk about the wildlife in the urban school scene. Are any of the animals the same or different to the wildlife found where you live?
An instruction sheet for children to follow showing how to make a bird from a paper plate. Has simple numbered instructions with photographs to make it easy to follow either independently or with adult supervision.
A fun story for young children about a duck who is learning about the similarities and differences between him and other birds. Great for provoking conversations about how we are all different as well as helping to identify common birds.
Everything you need to take part in Big Schools' Birdwatch in Welsh. Includes Foundation phase lesson plan, Lucky Duck story, how to sheets to make a paper plate bird and a bird feeder. A counting sheet and short videos to help you recognise some common birds. Use this link for some extra facts https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/facts-about-nature/facts-about-birds/
Everything you need to take part in Big Schools' Birdwatch. Includes Foundation stage lesson plan, (Also includes a lesson plan for the early level in Scotland) Lucky Duck story, how to sheets to make a paper plate bird and a bird feeder. A counting sheet and short videos to help you recognise some common birds. Find more information about common birds on our website
https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/facts-about-nature/facts-about-birds/
Every January and February hundreds of school children take part in Big Schools' Birdwatch. This is a power point and notes to help you introduce the session. It is designed to give you some ideas about which birds you might see and what you should be looking out for.
This power point and notes have been translated into Welsh
Every January and February hundreds of school children take part in Big Schools’ Birdwatch. This is a power point and notes to help you introduce the session. It is designed to give you some ideas about which birds you might see and what you should be looking out for.
Meet Bouncy Blackbird as he flies around his garden and discovers the different types of food his bird friends like.
Great for introducing similarities and differences and birds to young children.
Perfect if you're doing Big Schools' Birdwatch
A lovely story about Cheeky Sparrow who flies round his garden meeting bird friends who look and sound differently to him. A great way to introduce young children to the similarities and differences in common birds and those that you are likely to see in school grounds.
Perfect for bird spotting or if you're taking part in Big Schools' Birdwatch.
Presented as a power point for whole class teaching but can also be printed.