Third level 3-05b 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 some of the processes which contribute to climate change with your group. For example the carbon cycle, greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect. Time: 10mins.
2. Look at areas of current or past industrial land uses e.g. mining, railways, kilns/factories and quarries. Look at more natural land uses e.g. farmland, woodland, parkland and greenbelt. Discuss with your group whether activities associated with these land uses have contributed to climate change. Which industrial and more natural land uses and activities you explore with your group will depend on the areas you visit. Time: 40mins.
3. Discuss with your group natural contributors to greenhouse gases: water vapour through evapora- tion; carbon dioxide through volcanic eruptions and forest fires; methane from biological processes, for example in swamplands; the carbon cycle, including decomposition of organic material and nitrous oxide from microbial actions in wet tropical rain forests. Select a local plant or animal and discuss how climate change may affect its survival. Time: 15mins.
Equipment: • Pictures of the local area and historic maps showing industry and farmland. For pictures of the country park area contact the countryside ranger service.
• Pictures of natural and anthropogenic contributors of greenhouse gases: carbon cycle, volcanoes, dust storms, forest fires, glaciers, coal burning, CFCs from aerosols and coolants, cement production, fertilisers and livestock.
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