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Children find out which shape is best for a wheel, explore different surfaces and make waterwheels. "Excellent!" (Year 1 teacher) Typical day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am - 11.30am - Why is a wheel round? Test wheel shapes to find the most effective for a moving vehicle. 11.15am...
Children explore adaptation, focusing on camouflage, and how adaptation helps animals to survive and reproduce. Typical day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am - 11.15am - Camouflage caterpillars game in 2 different habitats. Write conclusion linking camouflage to adaptation. 11.15 - 12noon - Minibeast hunt. Record which minibeasts...
Children use their 5 senses in a range of outdoor activities. "The senses activities were perfect to fit the EYFS curriculum." (Reception teacher) Typical day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am - 11.00am - Identify the parts of the body that we use for each sense. 11.00am - 11.15am -...
Children identify parts of a plant and identify plants including trees. Typical KS1 day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am - 11.15am - Dig up a plant. Discuss parts of a plant including roots. Possibly label parts. Recreate parts of a plant using natural / found materials. 11.15am...
Children look for minibeasts in different habitats. LKS2 children are introduced to classification; UKS2 children create classification keys for themselves. Typical LKS2 day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am - 11.00am - how might we group these minibeasts? Children to get pictures of different bugs and come...
Spend the morning taking part in a mapping activity leading to 'treasure'. Cook s'mores over the fire during lunchtime. Spend the afternoon making dens out of tarpaulins and ropes. Typical day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am – 11.45am – mapping / treasure activity. 11.45am – 12.45pm –...
Find out what soil is made of. Carry out an investigation into the hardness of rocks. 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am – 11.45am – what is soil? Carry out 5 simple tests to show that soil is made of living things, things which used to...
This workshop should take place in the autumn, when there are seeds on the plants. Children use environmental art to represent the different parts of a plant, identify different seeds, collect data about different plants and carry out a spinner investigation to model seed dispersal. 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome /...
Come and join us for a full day of putting maths into a real life context! Most groups do a measuring activity, a data collection activity and a shape activity. We can adapt this for any age group. Typical plan: 10.00am - 10.45am - welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45 -...
We have a class set of data loggers for children to explore. This workshop involves children measuring light, sound and temperature before coming up with their own questions to investigate, such as, ‘how does the temperature change over the course of the day?’ This workshop can be shortened and combined...
