Related links

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/growingschools/ Growing Schools is the government website which has been designed to help teachers incorporate the ‘outdoor classroom’ in their teaching across a wide range of the curriculum.

http://cwr.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Module=EducationalSearch Access to Farms

Link here to the Defra website listing Educational Access Sites for schools to visit farms.

http://www.face-online.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=13&Itemid=278 The Farming and Countryside Education website has very useful information on planning visits to the countryside – whether it be to a farm or to a nature reserve.

For Health and Safety advice see

http://www.face-online.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=278

and/or http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ais23.pdf advice document produced by the HSE for school visits to farms.

Lyme Disease info. this is a potentially dangerous disease spread by ticks: http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/lyme.htm

Click here for a pdf of the Lyme Disease Action Group leaflet

http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/index.htm Offwell Centre Keys

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/t1.htm

Kent Biodiversity Project Resource sheets 10, 11, 12 for keys.

The Amateur Entomological Society’s ‘Bug Club’ has a useful website with a key to the identification of minibeasts. http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugid.html

Insect taxonomy sheets could be entered here.

http://www.bumblebee.org/invertebrates/InsectOrders.htm

http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.ypte.org.uk/environmental/wildlife-areas-creating-school-ones/109

http://www.ypte.org.uk/environmental/minibeasts/30

http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/mothathn_results/overview/summary.htm#Finding%20Moths

The Moths Count Project - link to http://www.mothscount.org/

www.rspb.org.uk

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/lnr/lnr_search.asp

http://www.magic.gov.uk/

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/