Minibeast Identification Wheel

Minibeast Identification Wheel

An easy way for children to identify minibeasts that visit their school gardens. Simply point the arrow at the image of the insect that you want to identify and facts about their diet, habitats and classifications are shown on the wheel.

With full colour photographic images, each hand-held wheel features information about 15 common invertebrates.

The identification wheels enable children to explore their local wildlife independently in the school grounds, or they can be used in small groups on wildlife walks. The detailed facts can be used to practise classification, by sorting invertebrates into snails, worms, spiders and insects as well as for understanding how living things live in habitats to which they are suited.

Written by Susanna Ramsey, the creator of ‘The Natural Collection’ series of workshops which she has run in primary schools since 2010. With themes focusing on local wildlife, food webs, habitats and life cycles, Susanna has now run curriculum linked workshops for over 20,000 children from Reception to Year 6.