Schools

Plan a fun and educational visit to our Museums in London or Tring, where you can explore natural history themes and topics.

School visits to South Kensington, London

School visits to Tring, Hertfordshire

Online resources

Enhance your teaching and learning with our virtual workshops, training programmes and learning resources.

Virtual workshops

We offer live interactive workshops and shows that can be streamed to your class in school.

A worksheet comparing the skeletons of a Diplodocus and a human

Learning resources by Key Stage

We have a range of resources to support learning around natural history themes. For ages 5-14.

Teachers' newsletter

Keep up to date with our onsite and virtual offers, new learning resources, programmes and opportunities.

Teacher training and specialist programmes

Explore: Urban Nature

UK schools programme for KS2 and KS3 (ages 9-14), examining the importance of nature in our towns and cities. With teaching resources, regional workshops and teacher CPD.

National Education Nature Park

Transforming the way we teach climate education and supporting young people to act and increase biodiversity across England.

Working with educators

We are looking for educators to help us develop new onsite museum activities and online classroom resources. Please join us.

Highlighted resources

Discover some of our most popular and relevant resources for teaching and learning about natural history.

Build the Change: Human Impact

This 5-lesson course, suitable for KS2 classes and co-created with the LEGO Group, explores how humans impact the planet, using the example of birds.

Activity: Conversations with Greta Thunberg - biodiversity and climate change

Watch short clips of Greta Thunberg, Museum scientists and young people discuss the climate crisis. Then challenge your students to consider their opinions and actions.

Evolution teaching resource: spot the adaptations in Darwin's finches

Some of the actual Galápagos finches collected on the voyage of the Beagle, useful to demonstrate adaptive radiation and natural selection in school science, for KS2, KS3, and KS4 students.

Elsewhere on our site

The Dino Directory

Discover facts, figures and images for more than 300 dinosaurs.

Crafting activities

Instructional videos and articles on a range of crafting topics.

Do your bit for nature

Biodiversity is connected to almost every aspect of our lives, but it needs our help. Small actions can make a big difference.

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