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ARKive Education is a free-to-use, multi-media resource bank for teachers and other educators. Making use of the stunning imagery available at the award-winning ARKive website www.arkive.org, ARKive Education provides downloadable, ready to use modules on a wide range of curriculum topics, suitable for geography, biology, environmental education and citizenship lessons.

Check out the ARKive Education Resources and see what we've got for you!

ARKive (www.arkive.org) is the world's centralised library of films and photographs of the world's endangered species - freely accessible to all online for private research and internal educational purposes. Hailed as the digital Noah's Ark, it has won numerous conservation, education and communication awards since its launch by Sir David Attenborough in 2003, and has now profiled over 2,500 of the world's endangered species, using over 3,000 movie clips and 18,000 photos - all freely available for internal educational use at www.arkive.org.

ARKive is an initiative of Wildscreen (www.wildscreen.org.uk), a UK-based educational charity working globally to promote the public appreciation of biodiversity and the conservation of the natural world, through the power of wildlife imagery.

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We are always pleased to hear from visitors to our sites. Tell us what you think, what you would like to see and what you are using the ARKive sites for, and if you have new ideas or create resources using "ARKive" please do send us a copy so we can share them with others. Become an ARKive education resource donor today!

You can contact us at the following address:

Wildscreen
Ground Floor, The Rackhay
Queen Charlotte Street
Bristol BS1 4HJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 117 328 5950
Fax: +44 (0) 117 328 5955

education@wildscreen.org.uk

Help - How do I use the ARKive Education Resources?Back to top

Just click on the Resources link on the ARKive Education homepage and then select the subject and age group you are teaching from the resource bank grid. This takes you to a list of topics for that subject and age group with descriptions of each resource. These may either be media-rich Microsoft PowerPoint resources or simple PDF documents.

The multimedia PowerPoint resources available to download are zipped folders, each containing a PowerPoint presentation and a number of video files. The resource folder must be unzipped (extracted) and saved on your computer in order for the presentation and video files to play properly.

The following steps describe how to do this:

1. Click the resource you want to download.
2. Select the option to open, rather than save.
3. If the file opens a normal folder window, then right-click in any empty white space in this new window and select "Extract All...".
   
   ~~otherwise~~
   
   If the file opens in a WinZip or WinRAR window, then click on the single folder inside to highlight it, and click the "Extract" or "Extract To" button on the program's toolbar.
4. Follow onscreen instructions to select a suitable place on your on your computer to save the folder and click "OK" to save the resource folder.
5. There will now be a new folder with a name such as "ARKive Education - Adaptations" on you computer. You are now ready to open the Microsoft PowerPoint file from here.

Help - How do I download movie clips from the main ARKive site?Back to top

All movie clips and images on the ARKive website (www.arkive.org) are free to use for internal educational purposes (see http://www.arkive.org/media.html#terms for more on ARKive Terms of Use).

To find a suitable movie clip use the ARKive search engine or browse the ARKive species until you find a movie clip you want to use. Watch it streaming online or click the download button and save it onto your computer. It's that simple!

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www.arkive.org
ARKive is the world's centralised library of films and photographs of the world's endangered species. It has now profiled over 2,500 of the world's endangered species using over 3,000 movie clips and 18,000 photos - all freely available and downloadable for internal educational use at www.arkive.org

www.antiguanracer.org
The amazing true story of how a vanishing species was saved from extinction.

revolution.caret.cam.ac.uk
Online biology experience from Cambridge University.

www.teachers.tv
Thousands of education programmes on TV and online.

www.green.tv
An environmental online TV website with current affairs programmes.

Exploratorium
Exploratorium, a general science learning site.

Environment Online
Environment Online is a global virtual school for sustainable development and environmental awareness.

Science Learning Centres
The science learning centres provide high quality continuing professional development for everyone involved in science education, at all levels across the U.K.

www.adventureecology.com
A free ecological website, with rich graphics, great for school clubs!

www.askabiologist.org.uk
Put your student’s questions to the expert panel of professional biologists.

www.wwflearning.org.uk
WWF learning website, good resources and information on a variety of topics.

Please contact us at education@wildscreen.org.uk if you have a suitable link to suggest.

Links from this site are provided for your information. ARKive are not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked websites and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Please report any broken links to education@wildscreen.org.uk.