Images
Browse all 577 images used across the curriculum — including activity illustrations and wiki page images. Search by name, description, or species, click an image to view it full size, or follow the links to the pages where each image is used.
577 images
**Cliffs** on the **coast**
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Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
**forest**
A **forest**
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Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Adonis Blue Butterfly
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Used on:More Habitat Creatures
Adult (Hou Yifan, Chess Olympiad)
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Adult Butterfly (Lepidoptera)
An adult butterfly in side profile with wings upright, as seen in a life-cycle diagram
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Adult Dunlin on the Alaskan Arctic Tundra. It may be cold and hard but life still finds a way!
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Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
Adult Frog
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African Savanna
A Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in its natural habitat: African Savanna.
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Used on:African Savanna
Animation of a switch opening and closing a circuit to let the electricity flow into the light bulb.
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Arctic Ocean Pack Ice
A Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) in its natural habitat: Arctic Ocean Pack Ice.
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Used on:Arctic Ocean Pack Ice
Arctic Sea Ice
A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in its natural habitat: Arctic Sea Ice.
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Used on:Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic Tundra
A Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) in its natural habitat: Arctic Tundra.
arctic-tundra.jpg
Used on:Arctic Tundra
Artist's drawing of a blue whale as used on a postage stamp from the Faroe Islands
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Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Australian Desert Scrub
A Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) in its natural habitat: Australian Desert Scrub.
desert-scrub.jpg
Used on:Australian Desert Scrub
Autumn leaves change colour and fall
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Babies fingers will automatically hold onto things they feel in their hand.
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Baby turtle hiding in its shell
/media/wikimedia/Terrapene_carolina_carolina_Baby_Turtle.jpg
Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
Baby turtles make their way to the sea
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Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
Badger
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Bank vole next to his home (the hole in the ground!)
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Barn swallow perched on a wire
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Batteries come in many different shapes and sizes so they can fit into different kinds of appliances
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Battery made from fruit! Each piece of apple with the coin and screw is a cell. They connect together to make a battery.
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Bearded Dragon
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Bee
/media/wikimedia/Beatrice_the_Honey_Bee__7836716730_.jpg
Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain
/media/wikimedia/Ben_Nevis_from_Corpach_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2525473.jpg
Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
Bird's-foot-trefoil
/media/images/bird-s-foot-trefoil-photo.jpg
Used on:Grassland Habitats (GCSE Core)
Birds can sit on a live power wire safely
/media/wikimedia/Birds_on_a_Wire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_551515.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Black Bittern calling, Warriewood Wetlands, New South Wales
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Used on:Year 4: Sound
Blobfish in its natural deep sea habitat under pressure
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Blobfish out of water, relaxing into its famous blob shape
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Blowing bubbles under water
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Blue tit bringing food to its nest box
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Blue tit with a caterpillar
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Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
A stem of nodding violet-blue bell-shaped flowers drooping to one side, with narrow strap-like leaves
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Bluetit feeding a catterpillar to it's baby
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Bombardier Beetle
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Bottlenose Dolphin - Dolphins use sound to 'see' and talk underwater.
/media/wikimedia/Bottlenose_Dolphin.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Sound
Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
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Used on:Record Breakers Dataset
Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni)
Wings open, top view, male — distinctive bright sulphur-yellow wings with a small orange spot on each wing
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Broad bean seed starting to sprout
/media/wikimedia/Broad_Bean__Vicia_faba__seed_Germination.jpg
Used on:Year 2: Plants
Broad-leaved Pondweed
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Used on:Freshwater Habitats (GCSE Core)
Brown-lipped Snail (Cepaea nemoralis)
A small snail similar to the white-lipped but with a dark brown lip at the shell opening; shell colour variable
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Buff-tailed Bumblebee
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala)
Wings folded in resting pose, showing the remarkable silvery-grey wings with a buff-yellow oval patch at the wingtip that mimics a broken twig
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Butterfly Egg (Lepidoptera)
A cluster of small pale green butterfly eggs on a leaf surface, showing their ridged texture
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Caterpillar (Lepidoptera)
A green and black striped caterpillar on a stem, showing legs and segmented body
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Chicken
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Children running
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Chrysalis (Lepidoptera)
A green chrysalis hanging from a stem by a silk thread, showing the smooth outer casing
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Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae)
Wings spread, top view, sooty-black forewings with two red streaks and two red spots; bright red hindwings
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Clouds are made of tiny water droplets. When enough of them bump into each other and stick together they get big enough and heavy enough that they fall out of the cloud as rain.
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Clownfish
/media/wikimedia/Amphiprion_ocellaris_Clown_anemonefish_by_Nick_Hobgood.jpg
Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Cluster of ladybirds emerge from hibernation
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Collection of different shells
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Colourful caterpillar eating a leaf
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)
Wings open, top view, male — vivid sky-blue wings with a white fringe and thin black border
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Common Butterwort
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Common Daisy (Bellis perennis)
A simple daisy flower with white ray petals and a yellow disc centre, on a short stem
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Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
An adult common frog in a typical sitting pose, showing smooth moist skin, long back legs, and distinctive dark eye stripe
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Common frog sitting in shallow water
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Common Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)
A garden snail with its globular brown-and-yellow banded shell and grey body extended, showing both pairs of tentacles
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Common garden spider in it's web
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Common green grasshopper
/media/wikimedia/Common_Green_Grasshopper._Omocestus_viridulus__female__51706721183_.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Common housefly
/media/wikimedia/Common_house_fly__Musca_domestica.jpg
Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Common Minnow
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Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
A bright scarlet poppy flower with four thin crinkled petals and a dark centre, on a hairy stem
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Common Swift in flight
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Common Toad (Bufo bufo)
An adult common toad in a sitting pose, showing dry warty skin, copper-coloured eyes, and a stocky body
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Common Water-crowfoot
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Used on:Freshwater Habitats (GCSE Core)
Copper Beech tree leaves on the ground in autumn
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Cormorant in its natural environment
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Used on:Missing Creatures
Cowslip (Primula veris)
A cluster of drooping yellow tubular flowers on a single stem rising from a rosette of crinkled leaves
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Used on:Name the Wildflower (Year 5/6)
Cracked Beech fruit with nut
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Cracked Horse Chestnut fruit with chestnut ('conker')
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
A bright yellow dandelion flower head on a hollow stem, with jagged-edged leaves at the base
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Used on:Name the Wildflower (Year 1/2)
Dandelion clock that has been blown by the wind
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Day old chick
A day old chick
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Dead Log
A Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) in its natural habitat: Dead Log.
dead-log.jpg
Used on:Dead Log
Deep Desert Dunes
A Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius) in its natural habitat: Deep Desert Dunes.
desert-dunes.jpg
Used on:Deep Desert Dunes
Deep Sea Abyssal Zone
A Anglerfish (Lophiiformes) in its natural habitat: Deep Sea Abyssal Zone.
deep-sea-trench.jpg
Used on:Deep Sea Abyssal Zone
Desert Burrows
A Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in its natural habitat: Desert Burrows.
mojave-burrows.jpg
Used on:Desert Burrows
Diagram of heart's electrical beat (ECG).
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Diagram of human nervous system.
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Different stages in the life of a frog
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Dog Rose (Rosa canina)
A pale pink five-petalled wild rose flower on a thorny arching stem with compound leaves
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Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor)
Wings spread, top view, striking pink and olive-green wings in a streamlined hawk-moth shape
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Elephants drink water with their trunks and also love to spray it over themselves to cool down.
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Emperor Penguins
/media/wikimedia/Aptenodytes_forsteri_-Snow_Hill_Island_Antarctica_-adults_and_juvenile-8.jpg
Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Eurasian Badger
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Eurasian blue tit
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European Badger
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European robin on a rock
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European Yew shoot with young cones and red Aril fruit
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Even rock melts if it gets hot enough! Volcanoes can erupt and spit out molten rock as 'lava'.
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Field Horsetail
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Field of wheat that has been harvested to remove the grain for us to make bread and other food and leave the bales of straw to use for animal bedding and snacks
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Fox Adolescent
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Fox Cubs
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Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
A tall spike of tubular purple-pink flowers, each with spotted interior markings, and large soft leaves
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French Bulldog puppies feeding on their mother's milk
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Fringe Toed Lizard
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Frog spawn
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Frog Spawn
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Froglet (Rana temporaria)
A tiny froglet on land with a very small stub of tail remaining
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Frogspawn (Rana temporaria)
A clump of frogspawn — transparent jelly spheres each containing a black egg, floating in water
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Gall Wasp
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Garden Slug (Arion hortensis)
A small dark grey-brown slug with a yellowish-orange sole and no keel
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Garden Tiger (Arctia caja)
Wings open, top view, creamy-white forewings with dark brown patches; bright orange hindwings with blue-black spots
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Geese on the banks of the **river** Severn
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Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Giraffe
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Giraffe sneezing... That was a big sneeze!
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Glaciers are very large solid objects formed of frozen water
/media/wikimedia/Glacier_Features_Iceberg__Pedersen_Lagoon__32495172131_.jpg
Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Goat sticking its tongue out.
/media/wikimedia/Mr._Goatee_s_Tongue_-_3067341182.jpg
Goldcrest singing and showing off its crest
/media/wikimedia/Regulus_Ignicapilla_Singing_with_Crest.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Sound
Goose preening its feathers to keep them healthy and waterproof
/media/wikimedia/A_goose_preening_its_feathers_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2024335.jpg
Grass Snake
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Great Black Slug (Arion ater)
A large jet-black slug with a distinctive rounded saddle-shaped mantle and visible mucus fringe along the sole
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Great Diving Beetle
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Greater Bladderwort
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Greta Oto Glasswing Butterfly
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Grey squirrel eating a nut in St. James's Park
/media/wikimedia/Eastern_Grey_Squirrel_in_St_James_s_Park__London_-_Nov_2006_edit.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Grey squirrel eating nut
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Hart's-tongue Fern
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Hedgehog out at night
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Hedgerow
A Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) in its natural habitat: Hedgerow.
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Used on:Hedgerow
Herd of Elephants wallowing in the mud at a watering hole in the African Savanna
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Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
High Alpine Peaks
A Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) in its natural habitat: High Alpine Peaks.
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Used on:High Alpine Peaks
Highland cow eating grass
/media/wikimedia/Highland_cow_eating_grass_on_Zeeroverseiland__DSC07150_.jpg
Honeybee landing on a milk thistle
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Horse laughing and showing its teeth
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Hot Desert Sands
A Sidewinder Rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) in its natural habitat: Hot Desert Sands.
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Used on:Hot Desert Sands
Humpback whale coming up for air
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Ice can form across the top of a lake when the water freezes but there is usually still liquid water beneath. Some people go swimming in the freezing water for fun!
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
If its warm, ice cream can melt and become liquid again.
/media/wikimedia/Melting_Ice_Cream_Unsplash.jpg
Used on:Year 4: States of matter
If there is enough electricity it can even jump across the air between other conductors like metal. You can see the electricity flowing here from one metal conductor to another
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Illustration of Horse Chestnut Tree features
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Illustration showing the sun and the moon sharing the sky, representing day and night in nature
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Inside an electric eel
/media/wikimedia/Biotechnology_systems_biology_artificial_cells_5940428301.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Lamb
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Large White (Pieris brassicae)
Wings open, top view, white wings with black wingtips and two black spots on the forewing (female)
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Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba)
Resting pose with wings folded flat, plain warm-brown forewings covering the body, typical dull moth appearance
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Late summer bee pollination
/media/wikimedia/Late_summer_pollination.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Leaf-cutter Ant
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Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Leopard climbing down a tree. Some animals sleep in trees because they provide shade, or hide in trees behind the leaves.
/media/wikimedia/Leopard_Tree_AdF.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Everyday materials
Leopard Slug (Limax maximus)
A large pale grey slug with dark brown spots and streaks across its body, giving a leopard-like pattern
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Light bulbs lighting up because electricity is flowing through the power cable into them
/media/wikimedia/Light_bulbs.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Lightning striking a tree
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Lion roaring and showing its teeth
/media/wikimedia/Roaring_lion__Unsplash_.jpg
Liquid cream is mixed with other ingredients to give it flavour and colour and then frozen to make solid ice cream
/media/wikimedia/Ice_cream_in_cones.jpg
Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Logs being floated down the river to transport them to where they can be cut up and made into things
/media/wikimedia/Log_driving_in_Vancouver.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Everyday materials
Looking at a Hibiscus flower through a magnifying glass
/media/wikimedia/Magnifying_glass_with_Hibiscus_flower.jpg
Manatee
/media/wikimedia/Milwaukee_Public_Museum_November_2022_101_Manatee_at_Blue_Springs_Florida.jpg
Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Mass gathering of ladybirds on a tree in New Mexico getting ready for hibernation
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Mature Beech Tree
/media/wikimedia/European_beech_Fagus_sylvatica_in_Humlamaden_1516.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Plants
Meadow Brown Butterfly
/habitat-images/animals/wildflower-meadow-meadow-brown-butterfly.jpg
Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Meadow Cranesbill (Geranium pratense)
Violet-blue five-petalled flowers on an upright stem with deeply lobed leaves
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Used on:
Metal paperclips are good conductors
/media/wikimedia/Paperclip-01__xndr_.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Metamorphosed Toad Tadpole (Bufo bufo)
A toad tadpole with four legs visible and a shortening tail — mid-metamorphosis
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Mint leaves growing out from the stem of a mint plant
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
Mist is created when tiny water vapour molecules that rose into the air condense back into a liquid. The individual droplets are so light they just 'hang in the air'.
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Morning dew on a spider's web
/media/wikimedia/Spiders_Web_-_geograph.org.uk_-_982180.jpg
Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Namib Desert Beetle
/habitat-images/animals/n334-namib-desert-beetle.jpg
Used on:More Habitat Creatures
Near the source of the River Burn in Norfolk
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Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
Netted Field Slug (Deroceras reticulatum)
A small pale buff slug with a network of darker mottling and milky-white mucus
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North American Wood Frog
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Oak Tree
/media/wikimedia/Oak_tree_in_lost_Upper_Lemington_-_geograph-4649335.jpg
Used on:Year 1: Plants
Oak tree
/media/wikimedia/Oak_tree_at_Broad_Oak_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3623567.jpg
Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Oak Tree
A Purple hairstreak butterfly (Favonius quercus) in its natural habitat: Oak Tree.
oak-tree.jpg
Used on:Oak Tree
Open Tundra Mounds
A Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) in its natural habitat: Open Tundra Mounds.
arctic-mounds.jpg
Used on:Open Tundra Mounds
Orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines)
Wings open, top view, male — white wings with vivid orange tips on the forewings
orange-tip.png
Peacock (Aglais io)
Wings open, top view, showing four vivid peacock-eye markings in blue, black and yellow on reddish-brown wings
peacock-butterfly.png
Peppered Moth (Biston betularia)
Wings spread, top view, typical pale form — white wings densely speckled with black dots and dashes
peppered-moth.png
Perennial Rye-grass
/media/images/perennial-rye-grass-photo.jpg
Used on:Grassland Habitats (GCSE Core)
Pod of narwhals
A pod of narwhals
/media/wikimedia/Pod_Monodon_monoceros.jpg
Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
Poison Dart Frog
/habitat-images/animals/rainforest-floor-poison-dart-frog.jpg
Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Power cables are made of metal on the inside (the wire to carry the electricity) with a plastic coating (the insulator to stop the electricity escaping).
/media/wikimedia/Power_cables.jpg
Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Clusters of pale yellow flowers on short hairy stalks rising from a rosette of wrinkled leaves
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Purple Hairstreak Butterfly
/media/wikimedia/Purple_Hairstreak_-_Neozephyrus_quercus.jpg
Used on:Creatures from Habitats
Rainforest Canopy
A Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus) in its natural habitat: Rainforest Canopy.
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Used on:Rainforest Canopy
Rainforest Floor
Leaf-cutter Ants (Atta) in their natural habitat: Rainforest Floor.
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Used on:Rainforest Floor
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Wings open, top view, showing distinctive red-orange bands across black wings with white spots at the wingtips
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Used on:Butterfly or Moth? (Year 1/2)Butterfly or Moth? (Year 3/4)Butterfly or Moth? (Year 5/6)Name the Butterfly (Year 1/2)Name the Butterfly (Year 3/4)Name the Butterfly (Year 5/6)Sort: Butterflies and Moths (Year 1/2)Sort: Butterflies and Moths (Year 3/4)Sort: Butterflies and Moths (Year 5/6)Parts of a Butterfly (Year 3/4)Parts of a Butterfly (Year 5/6)
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
A rounded pink-purple flowerhead on a stem with three oval leaflets, each with a pale chevron mark
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Red deer stag roars loudly to show its strength.
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Used on:Year 4: Sound
Red Fox out at night
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Used on:Year 3: Light
Red-eyed tree frog.
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Robin singing
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Rock Pool
A Shore Crab (Carcinus maenas) in its natural habitat: Rock Pool.
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Used on:Rock Pool
Round-leaved Sundew
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Sandy Desert
A Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda) in its natural habitat: Sandy Desert.
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Used on:Sandy Desert
Sea-otter-morro-bay_13
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Seabream.
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Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae)
Wings spread, top view, metallic blue-green forewings with six bright red spots; red hindwings
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Skeletal anatomy of tilapia
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Skeleton of a frog
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Slow Worm
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Small Tortoiseshell
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Used on:Grassland Habitats (GCSE Core)
Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
Wings open, top view, orange and black tortoiseshell pattern with blue spots along the wing margins
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Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales
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Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
Some animals (animals are solid) live in the water (water is a liquid) and can swim through it because the water moves around them as they swim. Dolphins still come up for air to breath.
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Some materials are harder for the electricity to get through than others. The 'filament' part of this bulb resists the electricity and ends up getting so hot it glows bright enough to light a room!
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)
Wings open, top view, dark brown wings with creamy-yellow spots and small eyespots on the hindwings
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Stage 1: Egg
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Stage 1: Egg
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Stage 2: Hatchling
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Stage 2: Larva (caterpillar)
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Stage 3: Fledgling
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Stage 3: Pupa (chrysalis)
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Stage 4: Adult Bird
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Stage 4: Adult butterfly
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Stream flowing between two hills
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
Subnivian Snow Caves
A Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida) in its natural habitat: Subnivian Snow Caves.
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Used on:Subnivian Snow Caves
Sun ejecting a massive amount of solar material into space, taken from space by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in August 2012
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Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
Swallow perched on a fence
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Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
Swan reflected in the still water of the river
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Used on:Year 3: Light
Tadpole
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Tadpole with Back Legs (Rana temporaria)
A frog tadpole with two small back legs beginning to emerge, still with a long tail
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Tadpole with Four Legs (Rana temporaria)
A frog tadpole with all four legs visible and a shortening tail — transitioning to a frog
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Taiga Forest
A Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) in its natural habitat: Taiga Forest.
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Used on:Taiga Forest
The common Grey Squirrel, introduced from North America.
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The eight planets of our Solar System (not to scale)
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Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
The light (typica) and dark (carbonaria) forms of the peppered moth side by side
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The London Eye during the day
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Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
The native Red Squirrel, now rare in most of England.
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The rings inside a tree, one for each year of growth.
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Used on:Year 1: Everyday materials
The River Thames at sunset
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Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
The roots of a tree anchoring it to the ground
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Used on:Year 1: Plants
The sun
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The sun rising over the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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Used on:Year 5: Earth and space
The Ulster Banner (used to represent Northern Ireland)
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Used on:Key Stage 1: Geography
The wooden trunk of a tree is made by the tree as it grows from taking carbon dioxide from the air and water from the ground and using light to turn them into wood, oxygen, and glucose (sugar), which is a kind of food for trees.
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Used on:Year 4: States of matter
There are lots of different kinds of switch, some even have lights in them!
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
Three-spined stickleback
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Tiny pipistrelle bat, small enough to fit in a matchbox
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Toad Tadpole (Bufo bufo)
A toad tadpole — shorter and darker than a frog tadpole, with a rounder body and shorter tail
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Toadlet (Bufo bufo)
A tiny toadlet — a miniature toad recently emerged from the water, still very small
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Toadspawn (Bufo bufo)
Toadspawn in long double strings of jelly wrapped around aquatic plants, each egg visible as a black dot
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Toddler
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Tree felled by a beaver. You can see all the wood shavings from where they gnawed at it with their teeth.
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Used on:Year 3: Light
Triturus cristatus Sinarp - Newt
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Tropical Coral Reef
A Clownfish (Amphiprioninae) in its natural habitat: Tropical Coral Reef.
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Used on:Tropical Coral Reef
Tropical rainforest in Thailand
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Used on:Key Stage 2: Geography
Turtle eating algae and seaweed on the beech
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Urban Garden
An Urban Fox (Vulpes vulpes) in its natural habitat: Urban Garden.
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Used on:Urban Garden
Using a watering can to water a mini orange tree
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Used on:Year 2: Plants
Venus flytrap with its 'trap' open.
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Used on:Year 4: Electricity
White-lipped Snail (Cepaea hortensis)
A small snail with a yellow shell bearing thin dark spiral bands and a distinctive white lip at the shell opening
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Wildflower Meadow
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in its natural habitat: Wildflower Meadow.
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Used on:Wildflower Meadow
Winter robin finds some berries to eat
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Used on:Year 1: Seasonal changes
Wood Pigeon
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Woodmouse - Apodemus Sylvaticus in fallen leaves
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Used on:Year 4: Sound
Woodmouse with a blackberry
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Young Tadpole (Rana temporaria)
A very young frog tadpole — small black body with a long tail and feathery external gills visible at the sides of the head
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Zootoca vivipara - Common Lizard
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