ARKive Education Resources

Education using ARKive

Educate your pupils using ARKive’s many thousands of videos, images and fact files in a wide range of science, ICT, art and English projects. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage your class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art & design projects. All our photos, video clips and authenticated fact files are free and easy to use in your classroom activities and presentations.

Science teaching resources

ARKive's science teaching resources cover many key science subjects, including evolution, classification, adaptation, food chains and conservation.

5 - 7 year olds

7 - 11 year olds

11 - 14 year olds

14 - 16 year olds

16 - 18 year olds

Science games

Play games while learning about science.

A black-footed ferret family needs a safe new home. Can you design the perfect habitat for these endangered mammals? Play

Can you keep the rare sand lizard alive? Don’t take any reptilian risks, it's counting on you! Play

Love to travel? Explore the UK Overseas Territories with ARKive and see some of amazing plants and animals that live there. Play

How do you use ARKive? Share your ideas with us!

ARKive can be used in a whole range of school science projects – from discovering new species to understanding adaptation, from exploring the world’s most threatened habitats to producing your own food webs. Others have used the ARKive wildlife videos and photos to develop literacy and ICT skills, for creative writing exercises and to inspire poetry or art assignments.

We’d love to hear how you’ve used ARKive or how you would like to use it in the future for teaching and learning.

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