Education


Schools

The National Curriculum for Science includes the lifecycle of the butterfly (Key Stage 3/4) For copyright-free activity sheets and an ID chart of the most common species to print out and laminate, that can be used with children as well as adults, click here:- activity-sheets

Also see Butterfly Identification Workshop for a beginner's guide to the butterflies in your garden or school grounds.

ID charts for other wildlife can be found at; www.naturedetectives.org.uk

School Visits

		Local volunteers from Butterfly Conservation can come to your school to talk to the children about butterflies and moths, bringing live specimens which always fascinate! We can also help the children to plant a butterfly and moth attracting garden, and run moth-traps at an evening session. Contact education@northwalesbutterflies.org.uk
Children at Ysgol Owen Jones, Northop in Flintshire, being helped to plant their own butterfly garden

Leisure interest, Volunteer and Job Training

We can also provide education about butterflies and moths that can be useful to adults simply for their own interest, to help with volunteer projects or in various jobs in Country Parks, Environmental Consultancies, County Councils etc. This can be in identification and recording skills or in habitat management for threatened species on our own Reserve near Ruthin. Contact

		Identification and surveying techniques day-courses for different groups of butterflies and moths are run by the Wales Office staff at different locations around Wales each year. For more details Click Here   Locally we also run butterfly and moth identification courses in North Wales in the Spring - check on the Events page, or if you would like us to e-mail you when they have been scheduled, join our e-mail newsletter list by clicking here; e-mail newsletter