Primary School Sand Dune Activity Pack

This activity pack for primary schools has taken an active approach to learning about sand dunes, in sand dunes. It is an engaging tool and workbook for educational and fun field trips.

It is available in English and Welsh.

If you are reading this pack, we hope you are already inspired to take your pupils into sand dunes to use all their senses to explore. This pack includes a “Dune Explorer Logbook” that encourages pupils to take time to look, listen, smell and carefully touch what they find. Sand dunes in England and Wales are at risk and so we hope the activities inspire the next generation to protect them.

The curriculum-linked activities in the logbook are designed to encourage pupils to get active and explore the dunes in the role of a ‘Dune Explorer’. Dune Explorers record, create and respond to stimuli in their logbook
for a memorable visit. The logbook is a useful starting point to review together and deepen learning back in the classroom.

You can fold each logbook into a handy A5 booklet or simply print A4 for a clipboard. Each Dune Explorer Logbook has a Dynamic Dunescape Diagram that can be referred to, drawn on and annotated by pupils.
Dynamic Dunescapes project worked with education consultants Culture Force to develop a practical pack for using ‘in the field’. We hope you enjoy using them and welcome feedback. The resources are designed to be downloaded and printed at school, ideally in colour or in black and white.

Geography:
Skills development and field work, understanding processes that give rise to physical and human and geographical features and change over time, interpreting different sources, digital technologies (Geocaching, Google Earth activity ideas).

Science:
Living things and habitats, how different habitats provide for their basic needs, identifying plants and animals in their habitat.

Art:
Famous artists, developing techniques, recording observations, pattern, using sketchbooks/sketching, mastery of sculpture, making links between artists and their own work.

Maths:
Counting, recording and post visit questions.

English:
Spoken language, writing and the artistic practice of drama sustaining roles and responding to others.