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Building a bug hotel in your school grounds is a brilliant way to look after bugs and promote biodiversity.

Designing and building a hotel is great fun. You could hold a competition to find the best design. Can you recycle unwanted materials to make your hotel? Can students work as a team to build it? You can get some inspirational ideas from the 'Resource pack'.

Your step-by-step guide to getting started and all the resources you need are below.

Good luck!

Info

There are opportunities to use this activity when teaching these subjects:

England: Science, Maths, ICT

Scotland: Sciences, Numeracy and maths, Literacy and English, Social studies, Technologies, Health and wellbeing

Wales: Science, Maths, ICT, PSE

Northern Ireland: Science, Maths and Numeracy, Geography, Local and Global Citizenship

For more information, see the curriculum guide.

Get Started

Prepare by reading the resource pack (and using the other resources)
Run your 'start audit'. This will start your activity blog.
Run the activity - remember to update your blog with pictures of your hotel under construction
Run your 'end audit'
Submit your blog for a medal
If you win a medal, download a free certificate for your class!

Run start audit

Resources

To get some inspiration, see what biodiversity projects are happening at the London 2012 Olympic park:

View the 2012 Olympic park map

Use these resources to help plan and complete the activity:

How other schools did it:

How you can win a medal

Podometers

When you finish an activity we use your start and end audits to count your activities and measure any savings you make. You can track your savings using your school's pod-o-meters.

Eco-schools England

This activity will contribute significantly towards the curriculum aspect of the Eco-Schools Bronze Award.

By understanding and promoting the sustainable impact of the project to the school and wider community, the school will also be able to use the activity towards an Eco-Schools Green Flag Award.

Remember you will need to complete an Eco-Schools simple environmental review and action plan to meet Bronze Award criteria.

For more information go to www.eco-schools.org.uk/apply.