A-Z of Learning Outside the Classroom by Grigg Russell; Lewis Helen;

Author:Grigg, Russell; Lewis, Helen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Wider curriculum

Science and ICT

• Research particular food chains and life cycles, creating mobiles, diagrams, zigzag books or presentations of these. • Turn plastic drinks bottles or cartons into rain gauges; plant propagators or bird feeders. • After it has rained, draw around a puddle in the playground with chalk and observe what happens over time. • Explore the wonderful world of eggs – birds, amphibians (even chocolate!) all lend themselves to discovery. For example, investigate the strength of an eggshell; hatch chicks; explore whether eggs float or sink (try tap water and salty water and compare). • Challenge pupils to bring in a packed lunch that contains only reusable and recyclable materials. • Create a school compost heap to recycle food, or invest in a wormery, and investigate its development over time. • Consider how animals experience the world through their senses. Discover how moles find their way in the dark and learn about a sparrowhawk’s keen eyesight. Find out about the badger’s brilliant sense of smell and the fox’s fantastic hearing. • Plan a sensory scavenger hunt. • Make a sculpture that can decompose, from natural objects like fruit, vegetables or plants, and use digital photographs to document it. • Use digital microscopes to get up-close to mini-beasts.

• Create a branching database to identify birds that visit the feeders. • You can create your own mini-beasts at: www.mylearning.org/mini-beasts/interactive/311.

Expressive arts

• Use recycled materials to create instruments and compose a piece of music.

• Environmental artists and the natural world can provide inspiration for pupils to explore colours and textures to create their own artwork from natural materials. • Following a visit, produce a photographic gallery with ‘value’ words associated with each picture, e.g. ‘peace’, ‘beauty’ and ‘relaxation’. • Visit the same spots during another season and compare descriptions. • Develop a dance based on the water cycle and explore how to convey the movement of water – from trickles to torrents. • Use recycled materials to create collage, jewellery or mosaics. • Zoom into mini-beast body parts and stitch, join, cut or bond a range of materials to create, e.g. giant wings.

Humanities

• Explore global connections, trade and issues of social justice and fairness through an exploration of Fairtrade. Discover the range of Fairtrade products, learn about some of their producers, explore the connections they have with distant communities, and consider the difference that Fairtrade can make. • Develop an understanding of how we influence climate change through ‘PowerDown’ resources, e.g. motion-sensor lights (see http://powerdown.actionaid.org.uk). • Explore bird migration and find out about the incredible journeys that are made, and why they happen. • Design and build a simple wind turbine and look at sustainable energy projects in the local area. • Through history, Earth’s resources have been transformed, exploited, abused and cherished. Produce a timeline showing environmental landmarks in UK history, such as the building of Roman roads, the introduction of hedgerows, land enclosure, the opening of coal mines and slate quarries, expansion and later decline of the railways, new energy sources such as wind farms and the use of pesticides in agriculture.

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