First level 1-01a Self-led information
The following information is for groups who intend to undertake activities without a countryside ranger present, either within the country park, school grounds (if suitable) or a local green space. Each activity has a general description together with an equipment list. The majority of the activities are duplicates of the countryside ranger led ones described earlier but more detail is provided on subjects and games. There are notes for teachers leading their own outdoor learning activities outwith school grounds in appendix 2 and an example risk assessment can be found in appendix 3. It is important to remember there will be additional hazards related to specific sites, groups and variables which will not be included in the example risk assessment. Make sure you carry out a full risk assessment before your trip. Blank risk assessment forms can be downloaded from
www.damstodarnley.org/pack . Additional advice on risk assessments can be sought from the Dams to Darnley countryside ranger service even if they are not going to be leading the group. If you do not have the required equipment it may be possible to borrow this from the countryside ranger service (contact details can be found in appendix 4).
Self-led activities
1. Discuss the difference between living and non-living things. Set up an ‘Un-nature Trail’. To do this place non-natural items in a short section of woodland or scrub next to a path. For example an umbrella, glove, litter, toy, etc. Walk and get children to look for ‘un-nature’ things. Discuss what is seen and why it is non-living/‘un-nature’; everything else is nature. Call out things and get the children to decide if they are living or non-living. Select obvious locations at either side of an open area, for example by using specific trees. Identify one location as being for living things and the other for non-living. The children have to decide if what you call out is living or non-living and then run to the appropriate location. Time: 40mins.
2. Sort living things into categories. Hide picture cards in an area. Ask the children to find the cards and put them into buckets (plants, mammals, amphibians, insects and birds). Discuss one or two of the main differences depending on the children’s interests e.g. breeding, body cover or breathing. Time: 30mins.
3. Play ‘Team Animals’. Divide your class into groups of four to six children and get them to pick an animal found in their local environment. As a group get the children to create the animal with their bodies and move like it. Ask the other teams to guess what they are. Time: 20mins.
4. Ask each child to name one living or non-living thing and invite questions. Time: 10mins.
Equipment: • Pictures of living and non-living things. • Laminates saying ‘living’ and ‘non-living’. • Buckets and picture cards of plants, mammals, amphibians, insects and birds.
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