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Mandela: A Hero
Look in more detail at Mandela’s life and in particular share with children a film of his release from prison. Reflect on reasons why Mandela is considered a hero by so many people all over the world. Add further details to the timeline.
Suitable for years 5 and 6.
Food chains
All plants and animals living in a habitat are interdependent. In this session the children investigate a number of feeding relationships and create food chains to show the transfer of energy from the producers through the consumers.
Suitable for Y6 pupils.
Sustainable Development
The way we are damaging the planet we live on is not sustainable! Children find out about sustainable development and look at some of the changes that we need to make. Children think of both positives and negatives for these changes.
Sustainable development - What can we do?
All talk no action...! Not in this session. Children use the internet to find out what else we can do before creating leaflets to persuade other children and adults to make the change!
Phonics Leaflet
Simple advice for parents on helping a child with phonics.
Changing states
Water doesn’t just dry up… it changes state! In this session children investigate how water can exist in all three states and look for evidence of water as vapour, drawing diagrams to explain what is happening. Suitable for Year 5 pupils.
World Trade Game
Through playing the Christian Aid Chocolate Trade Game (need internet) children come to understand, in a fun way that world trade rules are unfair to developing food producing countries. They think about human causes of food security issues.
Australian Rainforest Animals 2
In this session children take the image of their Australian Rainforest animal printed in the previous session and use it as a starting point for a pastel picture.
Causes of deforestation, organising our research
In this session children find out how to create key word notes and organise their information in folders with contents pages. Children continue to use non fiction book features and the internet to locate information effectively.
Conflicting viewpoints about deforestation
There are two sides to every argument! In this session children take on roles on opposing sides of the deforestation argument. Children create simple freeze frames and sketches to put points across.
Multi-media presentation - Saving rainforest 2
Children complete their presentations started in Session 10, bringing together the information they have collected in previous weeks and images selected from the internet.
Children watch the presentations and give feedback to their peers.
Rainforest Pastel Pictures
Using Where the Forest Meets the Sea children study in detail the palette of colours created by the rainforest. Then using pastels and blending techniques children create a pastel rainforest picture.
Suitable for years 3 and 4.
Trip to Tropical Plant Centre
In this session children get up close and personal with tropical plants on a visit to a botanical garden, zoo or even a large garden centre. Children find out more about conditions for growth and the life cycles of different plants.
Suitable for years 3 and 4.
Appliqué - Dyes & Designs
Amazing Amazonian Appliqué! Children use the work of an artist inspired by the rainforest and Deep in a Rainforest as a starting point for some art work of their own. They create simple designs and dye their fabric nature’s way in this session.
Designing Greenhouse Games
In this session children apply what they found out in the previous session about internet games to create their own Saving the Planet computer game. Whose will be most enjoyable? Which game will encourage us to do things differently?
Endangered orang-utans (2)
Orang-utans are humans closest relative! Children find out more about the great ape and other great apes like chimps and gorillas, before using sketching and shading techniques to draw Orang-utans for display.
Present and Future Technology
Children discuss what technologies could be displayed in a 2012 exhibition in a similar way to the Festival of Britain in 1951, and then at a similar event in 3012.
Goli Masks
Narrowing the focus, children discover more about the features of a Goli mask used in all-day festivals of the Baulé peoples.
Children carry out an investigation into stylistic elements of the mask and their meanings and purpose.
1950s Art
Children look at 1950s sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and make their own similar model from clay.
The Festival of Britain
Children watch TV footage and research the festival of Britain. They make a postcard of their favourite part and write a message on the back about what they liked.