Second level 2-01a
Suggested follow-up activities Animals
1. Look at ways to classify vertebrates: birds, mammals, amphibians and fish. Consider reproduction, warm or cold blooded, if they lay eggs or if they have hair.
2. Have a class list of animals children have seen locally and keep it updated. Get children to classify the animals they have seen.
Plants
1. Do ‘Colourful Carnations’. Get two white carnations and put one in a vase with water and green food dye and one in a vase with water and red food dye. The flowers will turn their respective colour. This demonstrates the movement of water up the vascular system to the petals.
2. Collect a fern with sori visible and place this side down on a sheet of white paper for a week indoors. Sori are small dot-like marks on the underside of a fern where the spores come from. Lift the fern and you will see the spores which have fallen from the sori.
3. Look at the differences between the four main divisions of plants: bryophytes, pteridophytes, gym- nosperms and angiosperms. Divide the class into groups, give each group a division of plants and ask them to research its definition. The children have to find at least five pictures of their type of plant. Each group then presents their findings. The pictures can be gathered for a matching or snap game.
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).
www.damstodarnley.org
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