Education
Schools
The National Curriculum for Science includes the lifecycle of the butterfly. 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
Please let us know if they have
stopped working! (files sometimes get corrupted without our knowledge)
also please let us know if there
are some other resources you would find especially useful.
e-mail
info@northwalesbutterflies.org.uk
Also see Butterfly
Identification Workshop for a beginner's guide to the butterflies in
your garden or school grounds.
Butterfly Conservation's Head Office is developing a new website for
educational resources; see;(http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/text/8/learn.html
).
ID charts for other wildlife can be found at;
www.naturedetectives.org.uk
School Visits
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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
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Children at Ysgol Owen Jones, Northop in Flintshire, being helped to plant their own butterfly garden
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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
education@northwalesbutterflies.org.uk
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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;
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