A video, made by the pupils themselves, introducing what schools can do at the Natural History Museum. Watch the video before booking to help you plan your trip and show pupils the exciting activities they can do at the Museum. Some of the activities shown are only available for certain age groups. Go to www.nhm.ac.uk/education to see which activities are available for your Key Stage.

In this video presentation from the Natural History Museum we see how Scientists working on the Plants Under Pressure project discovered that 1 in 5 is at risk of extinction.

The interactive film at the Natural History Museum will transport your students back in time to explore the tree of life. Our world-class scientists will support your teaching of evolution and natural selection by explaining how life has evolved. Using cutting edge computer technology, you will share a room with dinosaurs, early mammals and our hominid ancestors. Your students will receive virtual gifts as evidence of our evolutionary past.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Carl Linnaeus made it his life's work to develop and refine a way to classify and name all life on Earth.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. So why isn't he as well known?

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Comedian Bill Bailey shares his huge admiration for Alfred Russel Wallace who died 100 years ago in 1913. Not only did Wallace co-discover natural selection, the driving force for evolution, he also founded a new field of biology - the study of the geographical distribution of animals.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Research from the Natural History Museum uncovers a tiny dinosaur with big canine teeth shows for the first time how one of the earliest dinosaurs grew into an adult, scientists at the Natural History Museum have revealed. Dinosaur expert at the Museum, Dr Richard Butler, led a team of scientists from London, Cambridge and Chicago. They used CT scans and Xrays to study the fossil uncovered in South Africa.

video tutorial from Natural History Museum.Charles Darwin transformed the way we understand the natural world with his revolutionary ideas. To this day, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is widely accepted, and explains the distant origins and fantastic variety of life on Earth. Why wasn&'t everyone convinced?

In this video presentation from the Natural History Museum we see Australia's unique animals and plants, many of which have since become extinct.

Lying off the coast of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly are home to a unique range of wildlife. To help support future research, scientists from the Museum are performing a series of field trips to gather fresh, good quality specimens to add to the Museum's collections.

Wood-block printing using engraved boxwood revolutionised the illustration of natural history in the early 19th century. The work of Thomas Bewick showed how detailed and accurate images could be printed more cheaply than ever before.

In this video, Ice Core Scientist Nerilie Abram reveals how we recover and study ice through the ages, and how this gives us an insight into how the Earth's climate is changing.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Jonathan Shanklin, Meteorologist at the British Antarctic Survey, was one of the team that discovered the ozone hole in 1985.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Polar explorer, scientist and naturalist, Dr Edward Wilson was one of the most prominent figures of early Antarctic exploration. He was also an accomplished painter and illustrator. In this video Dr David Wilson, polar historian and great-nephew of Edward Wilson, discusses how the extraordinary artistic talents of his great-uncle supported scientific research and helped to define modern wildlife painting.

In this video presentation from the Natural History Museum we explore the captivating story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition to Antarctica in 1910-1913, the Terra Nova, in this groundbreaking exhibition. Scott&'s Last Expedition features rare artefacts used by Scott&';s team and scientific specimens, appearing together for the first time, alongside a life-sized representation of Scott's hut that survives in Antarctica.

The story of one of the most exciting dinosaur discoveries ever made in Britain began in 1983 when a huge claw bone was found by an amateur fossil hunter in a quarry around 30 miles south of London.

Sir Hans Sloane was a doctor who collected curiosities with a passion. In his long life, he amassed one of the greatest ever private collections of plants, animals, antiquities, coins and other curios. It was to be the founding core of the British Museum and later the Natural History Museum.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Natural History Museum scientists, working as part of the Gibraltar Caves Project, excavated and studied remains of shell fish and other marine animals such as dolphins from two caves in Gibraltar where Neanderthals once lived and have discovered that Neanderthal diets were more like those of early modern humans than previously thought.

Video tutorial from Natural History Museum .Late spring and early summer is a busy time for all pond-life in the Natural History Museum's one-acre Wildlife Garden. Our visitors at the Big Nature Day bioblitz survey had lots of species to discover and explore from moorhen chicks and damselflies to toads and tadpoles.

Good air quality is essential for our health and for the wellbeing of our environment. By taking part in the OPAL air survey you'll help our scientists answer important questions about local air quality and its impacts across England.

The Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) is now a very rare plant in the UK and restricted to just a few chalk and limestone grasslands on a handful of nature reserves. Flowering in April it is a sign that Easter has arrived. Fred Rumsey, Botanist at the Natural History Museum tells us more about this spectacular plant.