Key Stage and session |
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Curriculum Content |
Learning Outcomes |
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Nursery schools |
Let’s look at animals |
We study animal’s colours and patterns, texture, movement, food habits and key features. |
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Key Stage 1 Summer Discovery Session |
The world around us: Animals - where do they live?Pupils will appreciate the basic needs of animals: shelter, food, water and discover the diversity of homes and habitats that animals have become adapted to. Through the use of images, bio-facts and close observation of live animals, the children will discover the variety of animal homes and habitats and how the animals are adapted to live in those habitats by camouflage, hibernation and migration. Habitat loss, destruction and conservation of local habitats will be discussed. |
Interdependence
Place
Movement and energy
Change over time
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Key Stage 1 Saver and Enhanced Discovery Session |
The world around us: home and habitatsPupils will discover that there is a large variety of habitats. They will investigate what animals need to live: food, shelter, a safe place to live. Pupils will be introduced to a range of animals, establish the essentials for an animal to survive and flourish in its own niche and look at the range of habitats that animals are found in. |
Interdependence
Place
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Key Stage 1 Saver and Enhanced Discovery Session |
The world around us: sorting animalsPupils will realise that there are many ways we can put animals into groups. They will be introduced to different types of animal. Through the use of images and close observation of live animals, the children will sort animals into groups using different methods including colour, movement and habitat. |
Interdependence
Place
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Key Stage 2 Summer Discovery Session |
The world around us: in danger!Pupils will discover that animals are endangered, the reason for the problems and what we can do to help endangered animals. |
Interdependence
Change Over Time
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• Discover that many animals are endangered. • Understand how human activity is increasing the problem • Recognise the role of zoos in conservation • Realise the role we can all play in conservation |
Key Stage 2 Saver and Enhanced Discovery Session |
The world around us: variety of lifePupils will discover, through close observation, the range of animal diversity within the animal kingdom and ways of classification. This is an introduction to different types and classification of animals. The children get to observe at close quarters, examples of an invertebrate and several different vertebrates and look at body covering, breathing, and breeding as characteristics. Other ways of grouping, e.g. by diet (carnivore, herbivore etc.) are also introduced. Children are presented with different animals (real, pictures, bio-facts) and asked to use their knowledge to sort into groups. |
Interdependence
Place
Movement and Energy
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• Recognise that there is a wide diversity of animal life on Earth. • Discover that animals have some characteristics in common and some features that are different. • Use these features to acquire knowledge of a vast range of different species in the animal kingdom. • Understand that grouping helps us make sense of animal life. • Identify key characteristics and sort animals into groups. |
Key Stage 2 Summer Discovery Session |
The world around us: rainforest explorerDiscover the amazing diversity of life in the rainforest and explore our relationship with it. |
Interdependence
Place
Movement and Energy
Change Over Time
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• Examine the structure of rainforests and where they are found. • Discover the wide range of diversity in the rainforest. • Explore the relationship between humans and the environment. •-Understand what can be done to help protect wildlife and the environment. |
Key Stage 3 Summer Discovery Session |
The world around us: conservation challengeDiscussion on a conservation problem on a national or international scale, working as a group and suggesting a conservation programme to halt or reverse the problem. The students will identify a range of animals and habitats under threat. Each group will choose a topic such as: the trade in wild animals, hunting, monocrops etc, discuss the problem and its potential solution. in groups and then with the whole class. |
Developing pupils as Individuals
Developing pupils as Contributors to the Economy and the Environment
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• Understand some of the major conservation issues of the 21st century. • Explore the interdependence of human activity and the environment. |
Key Stage 3 Saver or Enhanced Discovery Session |
The world around us: diversity of life (Classification)Students look in detail at classification of vertebrates and at a selection of invertebrates Students will explore the similarities and differences of a range of vertebrate and invertebrate animals and discover the features that will allow them to classify the animals into groups. |
Developing pupils as Individuals
Developing pupils as Contributors to Society
Developing pupils as Contributors to the Economy and the Environment
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• Discover the features that will allow them to classify the five vertebrate groups. • Understand the similarities and differences of a range of invertebrate animals. • Classify a range of live animals by observing these features and characteristics. |
Key Stage 4 Saver or Enhanced Discovery Session |
Leisure, travel, tourism and customer careThrough discussion, students will realise the roles of Belfast Zoo and its staff. They will explore the need for good customer service for both internal and external customers and how this is achieved in both the public and private sectors. |
Developing pupils as Individuals
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Further and Higher Education |
Business Studies or Leisure tourism |
The zoo is the perfect business for your students to use as a case study to base their research on. Your class can find out what it takes to successfully run one of Northern Ireland’s oldest and leading visitor attractions. |
Tailored to ensure your visit to the zoo meets your specific learning objectives. |
Further and Higher Education |
Psychology |
What's better than the chance to observe the behaviours of more than 130 species? We can make your learning come to life outside of the classroom as students can learn more about communications, group dynamics and animal intelligence through direct observation. |
Tailored to ensure your visit to the zoo meets your specific learning objectives. |