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Education resource library

Obtain your Bumblebee-Friendly Schools Award using our downloadable teaching resources and guidance across our website.

Curriculum wing resources

Bronze: Deliver the Bumblebee Conservation Trust presentation in assembly.

Silver: Use the curriculum resources below during lessons.

Gold: Provide an enrichment day themed around bumblebees.

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Two Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) on a bright pink cone flower.

Bumblebee-Friendly Schools presentation

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A group of school children standing with their teacher in a garden and holding bumblebee-friendly plants and spades.

Curriculum resources for schools

Habitat wing resources

Bronze: Designate an area on school grounds to be bumblebee-friendly and add three different bumblebee-friendly flowers.

Silver: Ensure your designated area flowers for at least two seasons.

Gold: Form a group responsible for maintaining your designated area.

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© Kevin TuffsContainer pots in garden full of bumblebee friendly flowers and plants

Monthly planting guides

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Common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) on a pink anemone flower.

Bumblebee-friendly maintenance

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© Richard DowlingA Southern cuckoo bumblebee feeding on a pink flower.

Bumblebee-friendly area sign

Community wing resources

Community wing resources

Bronze: Share information about bumblebees on the school website or social media.

Silver: Students create and share a presentation about bumblebees.

Gold: Involve the wider school community in a bumblebee related activity.

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A young boy wearing a bumblebee headband and sitting next to his teacher, who is holding a tray of bumblebee-friendly plants.

Bumblebee-themed presentation ideas

Monitoring wing resources

Bronze: Complete our ‘How to spot a bumblebee’ resource.

Silver: Complete a bumblebee survey in your bumblebee-friendly area.

Gold: Complete three bumblebee surveys in your bumblebee-friendly area at least one month apart and graph your results.

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© Jamie Buxton-GouldBumblebee on lid of pot ready to ID

How to spot a bumblebee

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Bumblebee resting on BeeWalk form on clipboard

Bumblebee survey form

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Bumblebee survey results

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© Kim Berry

The Big 8 common UK bumblebees

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© David GeddesTail view of a moss carder bumblebee in flight

Watch how to identify the UK's 8 common bumblebees

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Illustration of child looking at the Bee App on phone in garden

What's that bumblebee ID App