Habitat Study Trips

Getting outside the classroom to study Science hands-on is a great class experience and is the best way to re-inforce the learning. In Habitats pupils will be discovering and identifying creatures, looking at adaptations, using classification keys, magnifiers and an underwater camera, all out of doors and using our purpose built dipping pond. They will also use sweep nets on our meadow and collecting pots in the woods. There is a chance to look at microscope images back in the classroom too. Our tutors will get pupils working together as a class and in smaller groups and will include activities to encourage protection of fragile habitats such as working on our range of bug house hotels or creating habitat piles in the woods. Habitats study introduces the class to scientific terms such as Primary and Secondary consumer, Predator and Prey, Photosynthesis and Inter-dependance which can be used in the classroom before the visit. The outdoor study covers the curriculum requirements for pupils to:explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment, recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things, and construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey." This focused day at the Sustainability Centre would be a valuable addition to any habitats study as the outdoor activities will help to reinforce classroom teaching back at school.

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