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Children look for minibeasts, write ‘habitat postcards’ and make minibeast caravans. Learning objectives: identify and name a variety of common animals (minibeasts) (Y1, science, Animals, including Humans) identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds...
Lift water using pulleys, lift bricks using levers, model gears with clay. Learning objective: to recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect (Y5, science, forces). Typical plan for the day: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45 -...
This workshop should take place in the spring, when there are flowering plants. Children use environmental art to represent the different parts of a plant, identify flowering plants, collect data about different plants and pollinators and play a pollination game. Learning objectives: identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering...
Learn about renewable energy - make a model waterwheel, solar oven and/or windmill. Typical day: 10.00am – 10.45am: welcome / health and safety / tour to include hand crank generators and waterwheel. 10.45am - 11.15: make solar ovens; set up data logger to record temperature over the day. 11.15am – 12.15pm: Wind turbine investigation 12.15...
We are in the process of reworking this workshop. It is not currently available to book.
Covering KS2 geography objectives, children learn about the features of a river, make waterwheels and take part in an activity to support them in recognising symbols on a OS map. Typical plan: 10.00am – 10.45am – welcome / tour / health and safety 10.45am - 11.45am - make waterwheels 11.45am - 12.45pm – lunch...
