Draft Darwin Day
KS2
Learning outcomes:
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Learn about 4 different plant species and how they are adapted to their habitat
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Learn how to use keys to identify creatures
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Be able to name species in an aquatic food chain
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Learn how to handle animals with care
9.45am
Arrival, welcome and outline of day
9.50am
Make and decorate their own Darwin’s journal
10.10am
Beagle’s Journey – a look at Darwin’s voyage, locations and discoveries
10.20am
Trail around reserve focussing on different marshland plant and animal
species. A mixture of activities, questions and tasks.
11.20am
Snack break (optional)
11.30
Dyke dipping
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Demonstration of equipment
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Health and safety
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Dyke dip
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Identification of species caught using keys
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Deadly links food chain game
12:30
Lunch
1.15pm
Marsh/Meadow bioblitz
Record species seen and found in habitat
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Using different methods to discover the different plants,
height, numbers, identification ,where they are growing and
why?
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Invertebrate hunt – sweep netting and tree tapping
Invertebrate carousel – classification activity
2:15pm
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Animal detectives
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Bird watching with binoculars
Record findings in journal
Drawing or poem of a found special species
2:30pm
Plenary and farewell
Please be aware that times are approximate and may vary depending on your arrival
and departure times
With compliments: Gemma Smith
Creating A Living Landscape for Suffolk
Contact number: 01502 564250
Charity number
262777