Teaching
Cross-curriculum teaching ideas to inspire art, science, history, music, RE and maths projects supporting The Story of… books on evolution, space, humankind, inventions and climate change.
Drawing
Meet the illustrators of my books in short step-by-step videos created by them for children of all drawing abilities… to draw (and find out about) pangolins, platypuses and Arctic animals.
Colouring
Download colouring sheets on dinosaurs, space and evolution, created by Amy Husband illustrator of The Story of … book series.
Activities
20 + activity sheets with crafts, games, quizzes and creative writing to discover the facts about endangered animals and how we can help save them.
Playing
Download KakapoRun, an infinite runner game that challenges you to help this endangered bird survive.
Teaching
I hope these topline cross-curriculum ideas, published with UK educational specialist Peters, inspire projects and activities in kitchens and gardens at home and in classrooms and playgrounds at school.
Drawing
These fantastic eight minute videos have been created by the illustrators of these books to inspire children to pick up a pen and learn to draw. Children will meet the illustrators, discover amazing facts about endangered animals and peek inside illustrators’ studios.
See more videos from WATER: Pink Dolphin, Giant Otter, Caiman, Jaguar and Piranha.
Colouring
These lovely colouring sheet sets have been created by Amy Husband, illustrator of The Story of… book series.
Activities
Let’s Save series
Download this set of free activity sheets for the Let’s Save series. Inspire children to write a poem about the Amazon, dive in for an underwater quiz on the Great Barrier Reef, imagine the biggest herds of elephants on the planet in the Okavango Delta and make a stop plastic poster in Antarctica. From creative writing to numbers, art and ideas, these activity sheets will prompt questions and conversation around the stories of these iconic habitats. Beautifully illustrated by Jean Claude, these resources can be used independently or accompany the book.
The Tigers’ Tale
Download this free Activity Pack created by Bloomsbury to accompany The Tigers’ Tale. Pick up a pen to craft your own tiger – taking inspiration from the book’s illustrator Tara Anand’s many different tigers that roam across the pages of this conservation story. Learn and ask questions about key words linked to the story of saving tigers hidden in the Word Search. And discover the different ways that you and others around the world can help save this magnificent big cat and the forests that it relies on to survive.
WATER protect freshwater to save life on Earth
Download this set of free activity sheets to excite children with the story of water. Make a splash with creative writing, get global with a raindrop poster, answer TRUE and FALSE on the topic of water pollution and match pollutants to their source. Beautifully illustrated by Christiane Engel, these resources can be used independently or accompany the book.
Invisible Nature: A Secret World Beyond Our Senses
With illustrations by Anne Wilson, these five activities will encourage children to discover the incredible senses of the duck-billed platypus, find out how animals use their senses to survive and be inspired to write a poem about an imagined sixth sense.
Activity packs written for On the Edge Conservation #AnimalEDGEucation
Meet the kakapo, the aye-aye, the pangolin and the purple frog… endangered species introducing 20 + activities packed with crafts, quizzes, games and creative writing ideas for children aged 6-11.
These #AnimalEDGEucation resources were created and written on behalf of Oriel Square for On the EDGE Conservation, based on Share our Stories written by Isabel Thomas.
On the EDGE Conservation is an organisation championing evolutionally distinct and globally endangered species, both as ambassadors for the diversity of life and to change the narrative for nature.
Playing
Kakapo Run is a free infinite runner game written for On the Edge Conservation. Your mission is to help the Kakapo to safety by navigating across New Zealand to Sanctuary Island. Jump, dodge and slide through forests, shorelines and cities to avoid predators and learn about this endangered bird along the way.
