Lesson plans: Explorify activities
Three primary science teaching resources, that are inspired by some of Eden's the plants and exhibits, developed in collaboration with Explorify.
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Free curriculum and lesson plans from our Education Team – to help you teach primary and secondary classes everything from biology to design.
Three primary science teaching resources, that are inspired by some of Eden's the plants and exhibits, developed in collaboration with Explorify.
This lesson plan, designed for EYFS and KS1, encourages pupils to explore their natural environment looking for minibeasts.
An outdoor lesson, in which KS1 and 2 pupils, imagine a world without any light, drawing inspiration from the natural world.
Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils make ‘magic potions’ from materials found outdoors and build on literacy skills.
A science lesson challenging secondary school students to think more creatively about plants’ evolutionary adaptation.
Ideal for an outdoor-based autumn maths class, this lesson plan gets KS2 pupils using leaves to measure and calculate.
A practical activity during which lower KS2 pupils make mini-shelters from natural materials.
This pair of KS2 lessons encourages students to research rainforest organisms, discuss and group them based on characteristics.
Your upper KS2 and KS3 pupils will learn to draw leaves, develop artistic skills and explore scientific ideas around human survival.
A geography focussed lesson which will see KS3 pupils explore how we use plants for food, medicine and materials.