Find a nearby object to look at and adjust the binoculars to the correct width for your eyes by pivoting the two barrels together or apart, until you see a single image with no dark edges.
Choose an area to explore and count how many birds, or signs of birds such as nests, you can find.
Each person chooses, or is given, one local species, such as a plant, a tree, a bird, a mammal or an insect.
On a dewy morning, or using a fine mist spray of water, search hedgerows, fences, long grass and shrubs for spiders' webs, since moisture makes the fine silk threads much easier to see.
Gather the learners in a circle and pass around a natural container filled with wooden cookies, each marked with the name of a UK mammal, such as red fox, roe deer, badger, stoat, hedgehog, rabbit, gr
After rain, visit a damp, shady place such as a woodland floor, a north-facing wall, a stream bank or the foot of an old tree.
Split the learners into small groups.
In winter, once deciduous trees have lost their leaves, identify them using features other than foliage.
Choose a suitable outdoor area where bird nests might be present, such as a park or woodland.
Find a distant object to look at and adjust the binoculars to the correct width for your eyes by pivoting the two barrels together or apart, until you see a single image with no dark edges.