How to book
To make a booking, please view the guidance on the Essential information for schools page, then use our online booking form.
Our school programme is very popular. We recommend booking at least a 6 weeks in advance.
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 at Tring
Explore our workshops for students or download and print activity sheets in advance of your visit.
Our free workshops can accommodate up to 32 students at a time.
School visits, activities and workshops are free, but donations help support our vital work to look after nature and provide our learning programme. There is a recommended donation of £2 per child.
Activity sheets
Our activity sheets encourage close observation of specimens on display. Please download and print these activity sheets prior to your visit. Clipboards are available to use around the galleries.
Self-guided tours
Encourage children to ask questions and discuss animal features with our self-guided tours. The tours are designed for use by an adult leading a small group of children. Please download and print these activity sheets prior to your visit.
Workshops
Urban Nature Investigation
This workshop is available from April to the end of July. Suitable for KS3
Explore urban nature on the Museum grounds and investigate the impacts humans are having. Carry out a fieldwork investigation to measure how invertebrates are impacted on in trampled and untrampled areas, and use specialist equipment to record results.
60 minutes
Curriculum links:
- the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs and insect pollinated crops
- how organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment, including the accumulation of toxic materials
- ask questions and develop a line of enquiry based on observations of the real world, alongside prior knowledge and experience
- make predictions using scientific knowledge and understanding
- use appropriate techniques, apparatus, and materials during fieldwork and laboratory work, paying attention to health and safety
- make and record observations and measurements using a range of methods for different investigations; and evaluate the reliability of methods and suggest possible improvements
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Biodiversity and Conservation
Discover the importance of biodiversity and what is threatening it today by investigating data, fact files and specimens in five case studies. Gather ideas about how to conserve these species and find out what action is being taken.
Curriculum links:
- Working scientifically
- Data collection and analysis
- The interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs and insect pollinated crops
- How organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment, including the accumulation of toxic materials
- The importance of maintaining biodiversity and the use of gene banks to preserve hereditary material.
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