For educators9 March 2012
Do you work with children and young people?
Do you want to? Would you like to run education sessions about bees in schools?
If yes, then our bees education materials are for you.
All the resources are free to download below and suitable for primary school children (infant and junior). The card game can also be used with young people of secondary school age.
Getting started
- Background information on bees and helping them in schools.
- A guide to bees and the national curriculum in primary schools.
- A guide to bees and the national curriculum in secondary schools
The resources
- Plans for an assembly or talk about bees.
- Waggle dance game and accompanying bee-friendly flower pictures.
- A recording sheet to spot these flowers in the school grounds.
- UK biodiversity-themed card game, focussing on pollinators and a guide to how to play it. We've also got large versions for introducing the game to a class.
- A sponsorship form to raise money for your bee-friendly space.
- We've also paired up with Plantlife's Wild About Plants team to offer their wildflower surveys, which help junior children discover more about plants.
In some of the materials above, we refer to resources and information produced by other organisations. Links to all of these can be found here.
Feeding back
We'd love to see your photos and hear your stories about using our resources. Let us know how it went by emailing beeinfo@foe.co.uk.
Our education network and training events
If you'd like to go into schools on behalf of Friends of the Earth or find out more about our work with children and young people, please visit our Youth and Education Network website.
You may also want to attend one of our upcoming training events to help you get the most out of our materials. More dates and locations will be added soon, so keep checking back for events near you.
Because without bees the availability of vitamin C would drop by 20%