Buzz Game
buzzgameHave a go at encouraging biodiversity on a farm. Play on your own or against your classmates.

The Buzz game has been developed to simulate changes you can make to a field over three years. Choose your field margins, beetle banks and bird crop and away you go!

The BUZZ game is suitable for all ages.


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Buzz Game for Teachers
 
Biodiversity Project

CatepillarFACE promotes farm visits where children can find out how farmers look after the farm environment and thereby encourage a wide diversity of wildlife.

A folder of activities has been produced to accompany farm trips along with a poster highlighting the environmental work done by farmers today.

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Farmer Case Studies

It is fascinating to hear from farmers themselves about why they are interested in biodiversity. The farmer case studies are adapted form the CPRE/NFU publication Living Landscapes. 

Thanks to Colin Lizius for the use of his photographs.

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Fact Sheets
Want to know more about biodiversity?

FoxA set of fact sheets to help you discover is available.

Habitat Factsheet 1 122.40 Kb

Habitat Factsheet 2 109.05 Kb

Factsheets.pdf (194kb)

 
Snail Survey Record

The Warriner School Farm in Oxfordshire has supplied us with a new resource which is a snail survey to carry out in your school grounds. It is designed to be shared with the pupils on an interactive whiteboard if you have one available.

Any feedback on this resource would be welcome and can be sent to ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

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Snail Survey Record Sheet Snail Survey Record Sheet.pdf (693kb)

 
Paddock House Farm Powerpoint
 Paddock House FarmA visit to Paddock House Farm by pupils from Woodlands Junior School in North Yorkshire stimulated some creative work including a PowerPoint presentation on using willow as a fuel and biodiversity on the farm. Download it here.

There is more information about Paddock House Farm and its Willow production on our Willow Fact Sheet. Click here for the fact sheet.

 
Free Poster
Image There is a free Biodiversity poster available.

 

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Potato Posters

Potato PosterThis year is the International Year of the Potato which aims to show the role that the potato can play in providing food security and eradicating poverty. These two posters have been produced to demonstrate the biodiversity of the potato and some of its many wild relatives which eventually led to the potato we know today.

icon Biodiversity of Potatos Poster (5.89 MB)
icon Wild Relatives of the Potato Poster (615.75 kB)