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Activities / Resources

• Design Top Trump cards for different species of animals, considering their features, abilities, adaptations and 'super powers'.​
• Make safe habitats for animals e.g. bug hotel.
• Create a connection to a partner school in a different country who have more limited access to clean water: https://connecting-classrooms.britishcouncil.org/partner-with-schools
• Conduct a water usage survey in your class, collate your data and convert into graphs. Based on your results design posters to put up around school on the best ways to conserve water.
• Get 'Water Wise' using this useful online resource: https://www.52climateactions.com/get-water-wise/full

Caring for the environment
​KS2

Pupils will undertake a comparative study between two habitats we have here on site, one in our lovely beech woodland area and the other in our wetland pond. Children will discover a wide variety of species through mini-beast hunting and pond dipping. Considering what this habitat provides for the creatures within and our planet as a whole and the adaptations evolved to suit particular environments.

Pupils will also look at examples of food chains and consider the fact that all living things need energy which derives from the sun. They will hunt for evidence of food chain activity in the grounds of the Centre showing the relationship of predators to prey.

How much of our water on Earth is safe to drink? Explore big questions about water and its uses during our conservation activity. Hear the story of a boy called Tapan living in Calcutta and what he has to go through everyday to collect water. 

Pupils will learn to appreciate the difference in water accessibility in other parts of the world through our hands-on collection game. Before finishing with thinking about all the ways we can save water. ​

​Curriculum Links

• KS2 Science - recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
• KS2 Science - explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.
• KS2 Science - recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
• KS2 Science - construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.
• KS2 Science - identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.