Everdon Outdoor Learning Centre
Curriculum Year 5 and 6
Activities Available
Activity
Time
required
Description
Key Questions
Aims and Objectives
What will you find? Gather data and
records. Identify which are carnivores
and herbivores. Describe their
structure and compare diffrent mini
beasts. Observe, identify and classify
them. How is a spider diffrent from a
harvestman? What would happen if
we did not have insects?
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Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Working Scientifically
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Animals including humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Mini beast hunt
Discover mini beast habitats. Hunt and
observe mini beasts. Identify and group
them. Use FSC key and carry out a
simple survey.
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Working Scientifically
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Animals including humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Clay Animals
Create an invertebrate this can be a real
one or an imagined creature.
You could see if you can make a key to
identify them and classify them.
How have invertebrates adapted to
their environment?
Record what you find and compare
to another habitat.
Large Shelters
Can you survive in the woods? Work as
a team to build a shelter to eat your
lunch in. A Ranger will introduce some
wild food.
Think about the diffrences between Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
animals and plants and how they get Key Stage 2: Year 6 Animals including humans.
their food. Discuss and solve how as
a group you would survive. What
happens if the weather changes or
your water supply is polluted?
Badger Sett
Discover a real live badger sett, learn
about how they live. Discover how to
identify a badger sett and the signs
badgers make.
Make observations and ask
questions. Gather and record data
to build evidence that this is a live
badger sett. Describe the badgers
habitat. How does their behaviour
change through the seasons? How
do Badgers get their nutrients?
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Animals including
humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Everdon Outdoor Learning Centre
Curriculum Year 5 and 6
Activities Available
Activity
Time
required
Description
Key Questions
Aims and Objectives
Observe the tracking signs.
How do you need to move through
the wood if you are hunting or the
hunted? If the habitat was removed
would you be able to hide?
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Tracking Games
Lay a track in the woods to lead your
friends to a hidden ranger or group.
Animals use their senses to find food,
water and other animals. Can you use
your senses to find your friends. Think
about how animals have adapted to hunt
or hide.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
123 Where are you
Animals use their senses to find food,
water and other animals. Can you use
your senses to find your friends.
Think about how animals have adapted
to hunt or hide.
Use your hearing to find your friends, Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
which direction are they?
Water pistols
Animals use their senses to find food,
water and other animals. Can you use
your senses to find your friends. Think
about how animals have adapted to hunt
or hide.
Move quitely so that you are not
caught.
Use
your hearing to find your friends,
which direction are they?
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Animals that live in the
woods
Pictures of diffrent animals that live and
lived in the woods are shown. Discuss
the diffrent life cycles of the animals.
Play animal related games.
Why do some of the animals not live
in the woods now? Find and observe
animal signs. Which animal is
predator and which is prey? How do
the diffrent animals live?
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Animals including humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Everdon Outdoor Learning Centre
Curriculum Year 5 and 6
Activities Available
Activity
Key Questions
Aims and Objectives
Ranger led walk/scavenger hunt/keep a How many habitats and diffrent
field notebook/carry out a survey
animals live in the wood? How many
Look at the structure of the wood.
diffrent tree species? look at leaves,
Woodland is a broad habitat with micro twigs and seeds. How many plant
habitats within and can be described as species? Look at leaf shape, seeds
having layers. Discover the coppice
and flowers. How does the wood
stands at Everdon Stubbs and Mantles change through the seasons?
Heath.
Describe the diffrent life cycles of
animals. Discuss reproduction of
plants. Discuss nutrient cycle.
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Ancient Woodland Plants
(Spring Only)
Everdon Stubbs and Mantles Heath are
Ancient Woodland sites and in the
Spring a number of ancient woodland
plants can be seen. Late Summer/Early
Autumn is a good time to look at seed
dispersal.
Observe and record the diffrent
woodland plants. How many can you
find? How do they grow? Can you
describe them? What are the diffrent
life cycles? How do seeds disperse?
Why are flowers important? What
would happen if this ancient
woodland was destroyed? Compare
what you record in the woodlands to
another habitat?
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Animals including humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Deciduous and Evergreen
Trees at Mantles Heath
Discover decidous and evergreen trees
on the walk to the Shelter building area
at Mantles Heath.
Observe the diffrent blocks of wood
within Mantles Heath. What are the
diffrent tree species? How does this
change the structure of the wood?
Look at the ground flora and amount
of canopy cover. How are decidous
and evergreen trees diffrent? How do
these trees change over the
seasons? How have animals
adapted to the diffrent environments
within the wood?
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Animals including humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.
Woodland Habitat
Time
required
Description
Key Stage 2: Year 5 & 6 Living things and their
habitats.
Key Stage 2: Year 5 Animals including humans.
Key Stage 2: Year 6 Evolution and inheritance.