One big rainforest do - live lesson from the Eden Project

This year, The Big Lunch and The Big Help Out are teaming up over the weekend of 5-8 June to create an opportunity for schools, neighbours and communities to get together, share food and lend a hand in the UK’s biggest celebration of community. It’s one big do!

Exclusively for schools, join us in our stunning Tropical Rainforest Biome, for an interactive live lesson, exploring the connections between friendship, food, fun and taking action!

Curriculum links: Citizenship, Community, Personal Development, Wellbeing, Sustainability, and Ecology.

For: KEY STAGES – 1&2

When: 22 April 2026, 10.00 – 10.45am

Based around our new story, ‘One big rainforest do’, the children explore their connections to their favourite celebration foods as well as discovering what they can learn from the plants and animals in the rainforest when it comes to lending a hand.

This live lesson for Key Stages 1 and 2 and is delivered by our education and communities teams from the Eden Project. Bursting with riddles to solve, connections to make, actions to take and experts to ask, it is not to be missed!

Teaching Outcomes:

Children will:

• Describe reasons why tropical rainforests are important for wildlife and for resources that humans use
• Explain some of the links between tropical rainforests and food eaten at a Big Lunch
• Consider volunteering actions we can take to help our local community for the Big Help Out.

Session overview:

It doesn’t matter where you live in the world; we are all connected to tropical rainforests and to each other through the decisions we make and actions we take.

In this live lesson, we begin by welcoming the students to the Eden Project, Cornwall and highlight the importance of the world’s tropical rainforests. We then dive into our story, ‘One big rainforest do’.

We uncover the stories behind some ionic tropical plants and introduce simple things we can do to help ensure that The Big Lunch is rainforest friendly, as well as how, through working together, we can lend a hand and strengthen our communities as part of the Big Help Out.

Find out more about how your school can get involved in The Big Lunch and The Big Help Out this summer – and find free lesson plans and resources here.