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Classify This
What is an animal with a spine called? What groups of animals are covered in scales? and what on earth is a mammal?
Join one of our education officers as they walk your class through the world of animal classification before putting their knowledge to the test out in the zoo…
Session Duration: 40 minutes
Session Location: Begin in Education Centre (indoors) and then out and about across the zoo (outdoors)
Maximum Group Size: 33 children
Learning Outcomes
SCN 2-01a: I can identify and classify examples of living things, past and present, to help me appreciate their diversity. I can relate physical and behavioural characteristics to their survival or extinction.
Rainforests
Where in the world are the tropical rainforests? What do they look like? What lives in them?
Get your class enthusiastic about one of the most incredible and biodiverse habitats on earth! This education officer led session involves lots of class participation as pupils discover why these forests are so important and how we can all do our bit to protect them.
Session Duration: 40 minutes
Session Location: Begin in Lost Kingdom (indoors) and then out and about across the zoo (outdoors)
Maximum Group Size: 33 children
Learning Outcomes
SCN 2-01a: I can identify and classify examples of living things, past and present, to help me appreciate their diversity. I can relate physical and behavioural characteristics to their survival or extinction.
Habitats and Adaptations
From oceans to mountain tops. Hot deserts to Wetlands. This education officer led session gives learners the opportunity to explore a diverse range of habitats and discuss how animals have evolved physical adaptations that allow them to survive in some of the most extreme places on earth.
Session Duration: 40 minutes
Session Location: Begin in Education Centre (indoors) and then out and about across the zoo (outdoors)
Maximum Group Size: 33 children
Learning Outcomes
SCN 2-01a: I can identify and classify examples of living things, past and present, to help me appreciate their diversity. I can relate physical and behavioural characteristics to their survival or extinction.
SCN 2-12b: I have explored the structure and function of sensory organs to develop my understanding of body actions in response to outside conditions.
Everything's Connected (Pond Dipping)
Everything in the Five Sisters Zoo wildlife pond is connected! In this education officer led session learners will have the opportunity to identify some of it’s amazing inhabitants and piece together a real life aquatic food web.
Session Duration: 40 minutes
Session Location: Five Sisters Zoo Wildlife pond (Outdoors)
Maximum Group Size: 33 children
Learning Outcomes
SCN 2-02a: I can use my knowledge of the interactions and energy flow between plants and animals in ecosystems, food chains and webs. I have contributed to the design or conservation of a wildlife area.
Endangered Wildlife
What does endangered mean? This session allows learners to engage with the IUCN red list and discuss what we can all do to help species that are listed as endangered.
Session Duration: 40 minutes
Session Location: Begin in Education Centre (indoors) and then out and about across the zoo (outdoors)
Maximum Group Size: 33 children
Learning Outcomes
SCN 2-01a: I can explain some of the processes which contribute to climate change and discuss the possible impact of atmospheric change on the survival of living things.
Guided Tour
Can’t see a session that fits with what you class have been studying? Don’t let this put you off organising a visit to FSZ. We can organise a tour of the park, taking in some Five Sisters highlights. Feel free to let us know the topics you have covered with your class and, where possible, we will be sure to include some relevant themes in a tour.
Session Duration: 40 minutes
Session Location: Begin in Education Centre (indoors) and then out and about across the zoo (outdoors)
Maximum Group Size: 33 children
Learning Outcomes
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