A map of the Yorkshire Dales National Park (can be printed any size A4-A1)(pdf to be added). Fact sheets on the Yorkshire Dales for teachers and students (pdf to be added).
1: National Treasure
2: Yorkshire Dales
3: Geology
4: Wildlife
5: Heritage
6: Farming
7: Tourism
8: Malham
9: Access
10: Quarrying
11: Climate change
Cultural heritage resources
- Dairy Days: The story of dairying in Wensleydale. Cross-curricular teachers pack and resources (pdf to be added)
- Every Barn Tells a Story: Muker Barns. A cross-curricular resource pack for primary schools (pdf to be added)
- A Way Through: A research project into the spectacular routes through the Westmorland Dales and the people that used them; such as its Roman roads, drovers roads and railways.
Visiting Malham
During the summer months Malham is very busy with school groups. Please consider visiting other sites in the Yorkshire Dales to reduce the impact on Malham, such as Clapham.
- 1:25000 OS map of Malham
- 1:2500 OS map of Malham
- The geology of Malham
- Walks from Malham
- Activities to do with groups in Malham
Visiting Aysgarth Falls and Freeholders Wood
- 1:25000 map of Aysgarth Falls
- Walks from Aysgarth Falls
- Aysgarth Falls group leader’s education pack
- Activities to do with groups at Aysgarth Falls
Visiting Grassington and Hebden
- 1:25000 OS map of Grassington
- 1:5000 OS map of Grassington
- A walk to Grass Woods from Grassington
- A meadows walk from Grassington
- Audio trail for walk from Grassington to Lea Green
- Activities to do with groups in Grassington
Visiting Clapham
- Activities to do with groups in Clapham
- Clapham OS Map 1:10000
- Clapham and Ingleborough OS Map 1:25000
- Geology of Ingleborough
- Clapham and Ingleborough Cave OS Map 1:5000
- River Studies in Clapham – teacher notes
Resources to support the planning of your visit
Teaching resources
The National Parks UK website offers a range of resources on National Parks, including a map, facts and figures and a KS2 National Park Curriculum.
Green Careers
A video on young people’s careers in the YDNPA
Careers with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority: Teaching Pack
- Introduction to the toolkit for teachers and young people
- Career cards and individual stories
- Teachers’ notes, schemes of work
- Future career and project-based learning PowerPoint
- Student resource sheets
Further resources can be purchased through our online shop
Planning an independent visit?
- View our guide we created with the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) and the Mountain Training Association (MTA) to give you everything you need to plan your own visit to the Yorkshire Dales – BMC Into the Dales Guide.
Other useful website links:
- BBC Bitesize
- Countryside Classroom
- Dales Rocks
- Forestry England
- Learning outside the classroom
- The history and archaeology of the Yorkshire Dales
- Outdoor providers in the Yorkshire Dales
- The Field Studies Council
- The Wildlife Trust
- The Woodland Trust
- The Yorkshire Peat Partnership
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
- Woodland Classroom