Teaching Resources

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Continuous Professional Development – Building Empathy for Animals 2025

Partnering with Empathy Week 2025, our Education Team ran an online teacher Continuous Professional Development (CPD) session, to empower educators around the world and help them to integrate empathy into the wider curriculum and teaching.
Photograph promoting Teacher & Educator CPD for Empathy Week, featuring a person holding a black and white lemur while others take photos. Text questions if zoo visits serve best interests of students and animals, highlighting ethical considerations in education.

Continuous Professional Development – Building Empathy for Animals 2026

In partnership with Empathy Week 2026, Born Free hosted a webinar based Continuous Professional Development (CPD) session, to help educators bring this subject to life and carefully consider engaging with activities involving animals.
A slide showing a toucan with text overlaid: GCSE Biology. B7 Module. AQA Double Award PART 2

GCSE Biology, B7 module (AQA Double Award) – Part 2

Lessons 5-8, covering all the key topics in Ecology through multiple lesson plans, this pack is designed to save teachers and educators valuable time, whilst getting students enthused about wildlife and the environment.
A slide showing a toucan with text overlaid: GCSE Biology. B7 Module. AQA Double Award PART 1

GCSE Biology, B7 module (AQA Double Award) – Part 1

Lessons 1-4, covering all the key topics in Ecology through multiple lesson plans, this pack is designed to save teachers and educators valuable time, whilst getting students enthused about wildlife and the environment.
A slide featuring an image of a sea bird standing next to a pile of plastic waste. Text overlaid: The Great Debate: Plastics: Whose responsibility?

Born Free’s Great Debate. Plastic: Whose responsibility? KS2

With links to Key Stage 2 Science, English, Geography, Citizenship and SMSC, this multi-lesson pack will help learners think more critically about effect that humanity’s habits are having on the planet.
A graphic showing a photo of a baby elephant with text overlaid: All About Elephants - SEN Resources Module 1: Drama & Poetry

Autism & Nature – All About Elephants – Drama & Poetry

Through drama, performance and poetry, learners with autism or special educational needs and disabilities will discover elephant habitats, behaviours and the challenges people face living alongside them.
A graphic showing a photo of a baby elephant with text overlaid: All About Elephants - SEN Resources Module 1: Art & Design

Autism & Nature – All About Elephants – Art & Design

Through art and design activities, learners with autism or special educational needs and disabilities will discover amazing facts all about elephants.
An image of a deer in the woods with text overlaid: A trip to the woods SEN resource Module 2

Autism & Nature – A Trip to the Woods

Created by Born Free and Autism & Nature, this resource pack has been created to support trips for learners with autism or special educational needs and disabilities to a local woodland.
An image of a circus performer interacting with a tiger standing up on its hind legs as part of a show. Tex overlaid: Should Wild Animals be Banned from Circuses?

Should wild animals be banned from circuses? – KS3

A short, cross-curricular unit of work, designed for Key Stage 3 aged students, on wild animals performing in circuses.
A close-up photo of a tiger's eye with text overlaid: Born Free's Environmental Club. 11-16 years

Environmental Club – KS3/4

This pack is great for teachers and educators looking for activities for an after school Environmental Club, or for those who want their class to learn more about wildlife.