Steve Backshall

Nature Knowledge Expert

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Join Steve Backshall on an extraordinary journey through the natural world — packed with mind-blowing facts, incredible stories from his own adventures, and the chance to become an accredited nature knowledge expert.

Each of the six lessons begins with a ten-question quiz, before Steve reveals the answers alongside fascinating insights into predators, mass migration, sharks, snakes, jellyfish and the world's most extreme environments. Assignments range from written debates (should wolves be reintroduced in Scotland?) to creative pieces inspired by what you've learned.

The course includes 6 on-demand video lessons and lifetime access, designed to be completed in around 2.5 hours. Perfect as a gift for nature lovers of all ages.

Follow Steve Backshall on an amazing journey through the wild world and learn some of the most mind-blowing facts about nature! Become an accredited nature knowledge expert and the source of all animal knowledge.

Do you know which common insects roast their would-be predators with heat? Which animal has the most powerful bite, or where it hasn’t rained for nearly 2 million years!?

By the end of the course you will know all these facts!

You’ll need to get your pen and paper ready as each of the six lessons will begin with a quiz, where Steve asks you ten questions about our amazing natural world.

He will then go through each question, giving the answer as well as other incredible facts, fascinating knowledge and stories about his own adventures.

Steve will then set a fun assignment. This could be a written piece, like arguing for or against the reintroduction of wolves in Scotland, or a creative piece – a drawing, painting, or poem inspired by something you’ve learned.

You'll learn:

  • about predators including the world's deadliest animal
  • surprising animal facts
  • mass animal migration
  • about sharks, snakes and jellyfish

The course includes:

  • 6 on-demand video lessons - presented by Steve Backshall
  • lifetime access to the videos
  • flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
  • access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop

Time to complete the nature knowledge course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 2 hours 25 minutes to complete including a 6 video lessons.

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Lessons

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Welcome to the course! Steve will begin by saying hello and introducing you to the structure of the lesson. There will be the quiz, which you need to mark yourself, followed by the answers and the assignment. In this lesson you’ll learn about unicorns, top predators and the super-powers of a crocodile. There will also be super-jumpers, lock-down experts and the biggest brain of all.
Welcome back and thanks for the fantastic assignments! In this lesson Steve will tell you about the fastest and biggest birds, the driest, coldest and deepest places on earth, beetles and... the world’s deadliest animal.
In this lesson Steve will tell you how humans didn’t invent democracy at all – many animals have been using it for millennia. You’ll learn how plants can also communicate – and what they talk about! There will be big cats, fast fish and you’ll end up re-thinking everything you thought you knew about the polar bear – including their colour…
Steve will cover sharks, snakes and jellyfish in this lesson, as well as Octopus’ organs and reindeer eyes – you thought it was just their noses that were an unusual colour! There will be land speed records, animal alarms and you’ll also learn about the lake which holds almost a quarter of the world’s fresh water – incredible.
In this lesson there will be sea creatures in rivers and records for biggest land animals, mountains and roar-volume! You will also learn about one of the greatest journeys in the animal kingdom - a mass migration across continents by a creature no bigger your hand!
We all like a lie in, but for most of the year!? You’ll learn about nature’s laziest, the longest journeys and longest living. And there will still be time for meat eating pandas and animals which taste food with their feet!
COURSE TUTOR

Steve Backshall

Portrait of Steve Backshall

Steve Backshall is a BAFTA-winning English naturalist, explorer, writer and television presenter, best known for BBC TV's Deadly 60. His other BBC work includes being part of the expedition teams in Expedition, Lost Land of the Tiger, Lost Land of the Volcano and Lost Land of the Jaguar.

Steve has been passionate about the wild world ever since he could crawl. Growing up, he counted the animals that lived around him as his best pals – from the asthmatic donkey to the grass snakes in the manure heap!

After leaving University, Steve studied martial arts in Japan attaining his black belt. Over the following years Steve wrote for the Indonesian Rough Guides and during his travels became conversant in the local language, drank blood with uncontacted tribes, nearly got caught in fatal crossfire in riots in East Timor, came nose to nose with Komodo Dragons and attempted to walk solo across Irian Jaya!

Next, Steve headed out to Colombia. Whilst living in the jungle he wrangled snakes and ended up in a Colombian jail (through no fault of his own)! National Geographic Channel International bought the resultant video and Steve was taken on as ‘Adventurer in Residence’, producing, filming and presenting adventure and natural history programmes. Steve has circumnavigated the globe time and again, venturing into the Sinai desert, completing the Israeli paratroopers selection course, catching anacondas, vipers and cobras and making “The Ten Great Dives of the World”, for the long-running series ‘Earthpulse’.

Will Nicholls is a zoologist professional wildlife camera operator from Bristol, UK. Will films wildlife around the world for natural history television, often filming at height from the forest canopy to provide a unique perspective.

Whilst perfectly capable of shooting with two feet on the ground as a traditional “long lenser,” he loves to film at height in the treetops. Will owns and can rig a platform hide for filming, allowing him to experience a rare window into the lives of different species.

Previous television credits include working for the BBC, Plimsoll Productions, and Silverback Films. Will is also the founder of the largest nature photography resource online, Nature TTL www.naturettl.com, where he teaches photography alongside other professionals.

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