The Natural History Museum offers a range of ID guides.
These are downloadable and can usefully support the use of the FSC ID guides which we have blogged about previously. They are not always as detailed as the FSC guides, and focus on some specific areas, and fewer of them.
They are free of charge however, which will be useful for those who would like to offer the new specification but have limited budgets to introduce it. It will be important that guidance is given on how to reduce the cost of introducing the new specification, which could prove costly given the range of different areas that students will need to be introduced to, and which teachers will need to be upskilled on.
It would be useful to have some sort of library of ID guides for students to access, and perhaps a company will be paired up with certain aspects of the course to sponsor some resources that will be provided to schools offering the specification.
The companies that are involved will need to be carefully chosen however. One can imagine an oil company offering to sponsor the resources - it would not be the first time they have sponsored school resources - often making them free of charge, but with prominent branding.
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