Living Things and their Habitats | Enrich Education Archive - Enrich Education

Summary

Children use their Enrich orienteering map to locate and visit a specified series of control points.
For each one, their Activity Sheet shows a key word about habitats which has several missing letters and a clue (the meaning of the word).
They use letters from the control marker, together with the clue, to complete the word on their Activity Sheet.

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Activity Plan

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Habitats

Activity Sheet

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Habitats

Summary

In groups, children use their School Orienteering Maps to navigate the school site and locate control points, collecting Minibeast Top Trumps cards from each one.
They then use these to play games of Minibeast Top Trumps against each other.

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Activity Plan
Minibeast Top Trumps

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Activity Sheet
Minibeast Top Trumps

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Summary

In groups, children use their School Orienteering Maps to navigate around the school site.
They identify potential habitats for minibeasts and record any minibeasts that they find and the habitats in which they find them.

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Activity Plan
Minibeast and Habitat Hunt

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Activity Sheet
Minibeast and Habitat Hunt

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Summary

Children use their school maps to navigate the school site and identify things that fall into each of the following categories: things that are living; things that are dead but were once alive; and things that have never been alive.
They then use their Activity Sheets to record their findings.

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Activity Plan
Living / Non-Living Trails

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Activity Sheet
Living / Non-Living Trails

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Summary

In groups, children use their School Orienteering Maps to identify locations around the school site.
They collect suitable materials and use them to create a microhabitat for minibeasts.
They follow up at a later stage to observe and identify any minibeasts that have colonised their microhabitat.

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Activity Plan
Habitat Build

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Activity Sheet
Habitat Build

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