NatureLab Habitat Explorers Workshop
Latest News: 5th March 2026
Our outdoor season starts now! From March to November, NatureLab offers a variety of outdoor workshops and field trips for all age groups. All our workshops include practical scientific investigation, nature exploration and align with forest school principles.
Habitat explorers introduces pupils to the incredible wildlife found in their own school environment, building environmental awareness in a memorable way.
This two hour workshop includes a classroom introduction, followed by hands on outdoor learning in your school grounds. It can be tailored to suit the outdoor spaces available at your school, such as:
• Playing fields
• Woodland areas
• Ponds
• Overgrown areas, hedgerows and field edges
Our outdoor season starts now! From March to November, NatureLab offers a variety of outdoor workshops and field trips for all age groups. All our workshops include practical scientific investigation, nature exploration and align with forest school principles.
Habitat explorers introduces pupils to the incredible wildlife found in their own school environment, building environmental awareness in a memorable way.This two hour workshop includes a classroom introduction, followed by hands on outdoor learning in your school grounds. It can be tailored to suit the outdoor spaces available at your school, such as:
• Playing fields
• Woodland areas
• Ponds
• Overgrown areas, hedgerows and field edges
Current special offers for school groups
Great deal for one form entry schools! 7 workshops for £700
Special offer available for all schools who have not previously booked with NatureLab. We are offering 7 of our 2 hour Habitat Explorer workshops (1 per year group) for £700, perfect for outdoor learning at your one form entry school.
Book now for the summer and autumn terms. A small travel charge may apply outside of Lancashire and Merseyside.
valid until: July 2026
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Where we travel to
We can visit your school in:
What activities are available during this school workshop?
Workshops will be tailored in collaboration with you. Depending on age group and available habitats, this can include a selection of the following:
• Minibeast hunting
• Pond dipping
• Plant identification and parts of the plant
• Comparison of invertebrate species between habitats
• Plant surveys using quadrats
• Tree identification, sketching and taking rubbings
• Measuring the age and height of trees
• Discovering adaptations to habitat and food chains
• Discovering how you can support wildlife in your grounds
• Minibeast hunting
• Pond dipping
• Plant identification and parts of the plant
• Comparison of invertebrate species between habitats
• Plant surveys using quadrats
• Tree identification, sketching and taking rubbings
• Measuring the age and height of trees
• Discovering adaptations to habitat and food chains
• Discovering how you can support wildlife in your grounds
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Wildlife Workshop
Your pupils may know all about elephants or tigers, but how much do they really know about our native wildlife? Discover the fascinating species found in your school grounds and how you can help them thrive. Explore their habitats, adaptations and needs for survival through practical investigation.
Biology Workshop
Plants Animals including humans Living things and habitats Ecology and environment Life Cycles Minibeasts Habitats Life Sciences Forest School
Investigate the incredible habitats in your school grounds, and the plants and minibeasts that call them home. Adaptable to meet a variety of living things and their habitats, animals including humans and plants objectives; this workshop blends curriculum learning with hands on nature exploration.
Fieldstudies Workshop
Ecology Ecosystems
Practical science field work without the planning! Your pupils will explore the habitats found in your school grounds and the incredible plants and minibeasts that call them home. Every workshop includes real scientific investigations designed to deepen your pupils understanding of the natural world.
Forest School Workshop
This outdoor workshop allows your pupils to explore the incredible plants, trees and minibeasts found within your school grounds, and develop their knowledge through first hand observation. This aligns with the forest school ethos, developing curiosity and connection with the natural world.
What size groups do we cater for?
Up to 35 pupils per workshop. Discounts are available for multiple workshops booked by the same school, across our whole range of science and nature workshops.
Anything else?
Habitat explorers supports key science curriculum topics including:
• Living things and their habitats
• Animals including humans
• Seasonal change
All equipment is provided, and additional resources to support curriculum topics will be sent to the school.
This workshop is ideal for focus days / weeks, making curriculum learning memorable, outdoor learning / forest school sessions, 'hook' lessons and working towards eco friendly accreditations.
• Living things and their habitats
• Animals including humans
• Seasonal change
All equipment is provided, and additional resources to support curriculum topics will be sent to the school.
This workshop is ideal for focus days / weeks, making curriculum learning memorable, outdoor learning / forest school sessions, 'hook' lessons and working towards eco friendly accreditations.
Who are NatureLab?
We offer primary science and nature workshops and trips across a variety of topics, including habitats, minibeasts, life cycles, fossils and evolution. Please see our other listings for more details.
Shannon Raponi:
I am the founder of NatureLab, working with schools to impart my passion for the natural world and its protection.
I am a qualified primary school teacher with experience in KS1 and KS2. I have also worked as a field studies instructor and group leader, teaching biology and geography fieldwork to school groups in every year group from KS2 to A level, in addition to a number of volunteer roles with children.
I have a degree in animal behaviour and training, and wildlife conservation and research experience in South Africa. Throughout my career so far I have worked to give children experiences they would not otherwise have, and inspire a love for nature and the outdoors.
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