30 days to go to Insect Week
A range of educational resources relating to insects and entomology from the Royal Entomological Society, our Insect Week partners and online resources we have spotted.
Please browse through the list or use the tick boxes to select audience, resource type and insect group.
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Video
Watch Professor Camille Parmesan giving Young Verrall Lecture 2022
For: Secondary Adults
Activities sheet Video Website
This resource pack focuses on parental behaviour in burying beetles.
For: Secondary
Activities sheet Lesson plan Video Website
Engaging practical science activities for KS1/KS2 primary school children (aged 5-11), using dance and PE activities to engage kinaesthetic learners with the curriculum topic “Living things and their habitats”
For: Primary
Activities sheet Factsheet
A guide to minibeast hunting by Marian Hill for Buzz & Scuttle.
For: Primary
Factsheet
Introduces the ecology of mosquitoes with a focus on invasive alien mosquitoes.
For: Everyone
Factsheet
The mosquiteers learn about the fantastic pollinators of Europe
For: Everyone
Activities sheet Factsheet
focussing on the plight of solitary bees in the UK
For: Everyone
Activities sheet Factsheet Lesson plan
Action for Insects has been created to help these special creatures.
For: Primary
Activities sheet Website
Build a wasp nest, grow your colony and see if you make it through the year.
For: Primary Secondary Adults
Activities sheet Factsheet
What has a head, 3 pairs of legs and a thorax? It's an Insect.
For: Primary Secondary
Cluster flies and ladybirds hibernate in roof space in their thousands, in spring they leave a chemical marking a safe site.
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