Birds, bugs and bees
Birds, bugs and bees
This theme is about understanding how wildlife works together with plants, the weather, and the landscape to form a bubble of life called an ecosystem. In this theme, you’ll explore why animals are useful and what they need to live.
You’ll get stuck in by improving local habitats (places that animals and plants live) to make sure lots of different plants and animals can live there happily. You can focus on birds, bugs, or bees – it may depend on where you do your sessions.
There are five steps to this community impact project:
Earn stage one of your Community Impact Staged Activity Badge by understanding and contributing towards biodiversity in your local area.
Step one: identify the need
Try out both of these activities to learn about biodiversity and investigate the challenges faced by birds, bugs and bees. You could do them one after the other, or in separate sessions.
Play a fun game to explore how the natural world is connected like a beautiful spider’s web.
Takes: 30 minutes
Head outdoors and explore the beautiful biodiversity on offer. What will you discover?
Takes: Up to 1 hour
Visit some woodland and discover what lives among the trees.
Takes: 1 hour
Step two: plan action
Now it’s time to decide what issue you should take action on and what you want to change.
Learn about the natural world by making a bird feeder packed with delicious treats for our feathered friends. Who will visit?
Takes: 1 hour
Everyone needs somewhere to call home, and invertebrates are no exception.
Takes: 1 hour
Build a bee hotel and welcome these crucial critters to your meeting place or garden.
Takes: 1 hour
Step three: take action
To complete stage one of your badge, you’ll need to spend at least four hours taking action, over three months.
Choose your birdhouse and build a new home for our feathered friends.
Takes: At least 3 hours
Make a bug hotel fit for royalty for your neighbourhood minibeasts.
Takes: At least 3 hours
Make homemade seed bombs and grow a beautiful wildflower space.
Takes: At least 3 hours
Step four: learn and make more change
After you’ve taken action, discuss what you’ve learned, how you have made people’s lives better, the skills or knowledge you’ve developed, and what you could do to help even more people in your chosen community.
Make postcards to reflect on what you’ve learned, what you’ve achieved, and what your next steps could be.
Takes: 25 minutes
Revise and recount a recent adventure to the rest of the group, with the help of some picture prompts.
Takes: Up to 1 hour
After taking action on social issues, it’s time to interview each other on camera so you can reflect and share what you’ve learned.
Takes: 1 hour
Step five: tell the world
Finally, it’s time to share your actions far and wide. Help other people to understand why the issue you took action on is important, what you did and how they can help.
After taking action on social issues choose the best method to tell people what you’ve done, then get stuck in.
Takes: 1 hour
Make it newsworthy and share a story you’re passionate about with the world.
Takes: 1 hour
Share your community impact project with the world by making a short film.
Takes: Up to 2 hours