Schools

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

Or enhance your teaching with virtual workshops and curriculum-linked learning resources.

School visits to South Kensington, London

Explore our hands-on workshops and interactive shows

Plan your visit to London

School visits to Tring, Hertfordshire

Workshops, trails and activity sheets to enrich your visit

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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.

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Learning resources by Key Stage

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

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Teachers' newsletter

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

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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 five-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.

Big ideas in science: Evolution

Support evolution teaching with curriculum maps, hands-on activities, and ideas for introducing genetics and fossils. For Primary and KS3.

Elsewhere on our site

The Dino Directory

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

Explore dinosaur species

Crafting activities

Instructional videos and articles on a range of crafting topics.

Browse crafting ideas

Find Your Climate Action

Taking small, actionable steps can have a big impact when it comes to helping the planet.

What will you do?

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