The intriguing story of growing vanilla in Madagascar is a very tasty subject for study and is the perfect springboard for looking at pollination.

No slideshow could do justice to the treasure of creatures that live on the island of Madagascar but these beautiful images are a great starting point for further investigation.

Our downloadable Madagascan animal fact cards will help start children off on their voyage of discovery of Malagasy animals. Use on the whiteboard or on tablet computers.

Also available with or without text and images and also as a blank printable template.

The Vanilla Princess is a Mayan tale about the story of the creation of the vanilla plant.

The official language in Madagascar is French. Here are some useful phrases to use if you are devising a French puppet show.

Work out how much leaf our little grub has left at the end of the day with some simple addition and subtraction of fractions.

Cut out and make some reveal-and-learn French picture cards for all of the animals in A Grub's Tale.

We look at some of the life cycles of the animals in our story A grub's tale.

Meet our little grub on his journey to becoming a Moon Moth. Along the way, he meets lots of Madagascan jungle animals and learns about patience and self-belief too.

At the age of 12, a slave boy, on the island of Madagascar discovered a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably – read his story.