For educators
Do you work with children and young people?
Would you like to inspire future generations to act on Britain's environmental issues?
With Friends of the Earth's unique Bees education resource, you can run interesting and informative sessions about the key issues affecting Britain's rapidly declining bee population.
All the resources are free and suitable for primary school children (infant and junior). The card games can also be used with young people of secondary school age.
The resources pack includes:
- An Educator Booklet containing guidance on a talks, assembly, lesson plans fun and informative games and worksheets
- A bee-friendly plants survey, information about creating your own bee-friendly area in school and links to the national curriculum
- Pack of 'Phylo cards' for playing ecosystem and food chain games
- 36 A4 Phylo cards for introducing the topic of bees to a class
- Bee fact cards (an optional extra for the assembly/talk)
- Pictures of bee-friendly flowers to use in the infant games
- Guidance on recording bee-friendly plants around your school
- Instructions on how to create a unique Bee Hotel
- Link to the Royal Horticultural Society's list of potentially harmful plants
- Links to more information about creating bee-friendly spaces and meadow areas
Our new resources pack will be available before the end of March 2013. To pre-order your pack, email beeinfo@foe.co.uk including your name and postal address.
Extra sets of Phylo cards can also be ordered from beeinfo@foe.co.uk and all resources will be free to download from the website.
We're producing new youth and education resources for the Bees campaign in 2013. They'll be simpler and easier to use than last year's resources, and will be available as a booklet rather than several documents. The Phylo games and cards have also changed and won't be compatible with last year's resources.
To take a look at last year's resources, visit the Youth and Education Network website.
© G Gibbons
