Wild Schools at home

If you look out of a window for a few minutes, you will most likely spot a bird. Birds are fantastic to watch through a window or in your garden as they are less shy than other animals and still active in winter. Use our curriculum linked resources to identify the birds you see, become a bird detective, learn how to help them and so much more.

Click to download the Garden Birds Activity Sheet

Want to help our beautiful birds?  There are a few things you can do for your garden!  You could make a bird box or a bird feeder -  Feeders are particularly useful in the colder months when it is harder for birds to find their own food.  But don't forget you will still need to clean them regularly!  Finally you could also help to stop them flying into your window.  They often don't see the clear glass and see the reflections of vegetation, you can place hanging birds to stop this from happening - take a look at our activity sheet down below!

Time spent in nature is a great way to boost mental health and wellbeing but it is also a fabulous way to support school studies. Studying nature can not only help with science lessons but literacy, art and numeracy too. Our Mini treasures lesson encourages children to take notice of nature and then use what they see, hear and feel to inspire story telling. We also have a treasure hunt to support numeracy as well as ideas for art and design.

Click to download the mini treasures activity sheet

You can find some other activities connected to our Mini Treasures lesson plan below.  Right click and save the file to download the activity sheet and share with your class.

Nature provides an excellent opportunity to explore patterns and symmetry outdoors. Create works of art and clay prints whilst discovering the meaning of symmetry.

Download the Natural Symmetry Activity Sheet

Extra activities....

Trees are amazing! Find out what is so special about trees and their leaves in our videos then carry out your own leaf study. Download our activity sheet to find out how to explore leaf litter and for suggestions on how to use leaves in your art.

Download the Trees and Leaves Activity Sheet

Download our additional leaf skeletons activity sheet

Whatever the weather you can get outdoors and study it! Our session includes ideas for predicting and measuring the weather as well as some crafty suggestions too.

It’s starting to feel a bit like spring as the weather warms up and the birds are starting to sing. Why not join natures band and make some music yourself? You can find instructions on making a rain stick and a video on creating a woodland xylophone. Then try using your very own deer ears to listen more carefully outdoors, watch our videos and click on the links to find out to do this and how to create a sound map from the sounds you hear in nature.

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