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Learning resources for badger cubs of all ages
Welcome to your badger education hub, where you’ll find lots of FREE resources to help with learning at home and at school. Our learning resources are designed to support educators and learners to explore everything about badgers, their habitats and the issues they face.
Professor Brock – from our friends at Binfield Badger Group – has come along to help us, making sure there’s always lots for you to learn about the fascinating lives of badgers.
Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3
Let’s explore!
Key Stage 1
Badgerships
Maths
A game for two players, ideal for early finishers to practise formulating strategy and reading co-ordinates
18.3MB PDF
Foraging Badgers & Wriggly Worms
Science
A new take on Snakes & Ladders. This can be played as a simple board game or as a more complex quiz game allowing children to learn about badgers.
8.6MB PDF
Find the Peanuts
Art
Encourages hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills as a pre-handwriting or improved handwriting activity. Also gets children thinking about badgers and their habitats.
1.8MB PDF
Created for Badger Trust by Lily Clarke
Badger dot to dot
Art
Helps with counting, hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills to improve handwriting. The sheet can be coloured in.
547KB PDF
Created for Badger Trust by Suzanne Teal
Build a badger
Maths
A game for two or more players, ideal for re-inforcing the skills of number recognition, counting, sequencing, matching and orientation.
2.4MB PDF
True or False
Science
A quick starter activity to get children thinking about badgers or a plenary to confirm learning.
1.7MB PDF
Badger infochart to colour
Science
A first introduction to facts about the lives of badgers. The information sheet can be coloured in.
1.6MB PDF
Created for Badger Trust by Katharine Love
Key Stage 2
Foraging Badgers and Wriggly Worms
Science
A new take on Snakes & Ladders. Children learn about badgers as they seek to get from their sett to the foraging ground.
8.5MB PDF
By Professor Brock
Kennings
English
A creative writing task to complement Saxon and Viking studies and the story of Beowulf.
2.9MB PDF
By Professor Brock
Calculating perimeters
Maths
A maths activity to develop pupils' ability to calculate the perimeter of rectangles.
4.1MB PDF
By Professor Brock
Badger Ecology
Science
An introduction to the fascinating lives of badgers. The information sheet can be coloured in.
1.9MB PDF
Created for Badger Trust by Annalees Lim
Science
An introduction to the key concepts relating to food chains focussing on the British countryside.
14.3MB PDF
Badgerships
Maths
A game for two players, ideal for early finishers to practise formulating strategy and reading co-ordinates
19MB PDF
By Professor Brock
World Badgers
Geography
A geography activity to find out about badger species worldwide and where they live, label accurately maps with worldwide locations and use the internet to find answers to questions posed.
3.2MB PDF
By Professor Brock
Key Stage 3
English
An opportunity for pupils to analyse 18th century poetry in terms of structure, language, meaning and purpose
1.7MB PDF
Writing Styles and Purpose
English
English
Analysing a famous political metaphor and opportunities for children to devise their own metaphors about badgers.
1.1MB PDF
Badger A-Z
General
Test your knowledge or computer research skills with our A-Z quiz of all things badger.
1.4MB PDF
More free resources available
More from Professor Brock available at Binfield Badger Group