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Animal Adaptations

About this session

Key Stage: Upper KS1 & KS2 | Curriculum Links: The World Around Us, Language and Literacy, Thinking Skills and Capabilities | Topic: Animal Adaptations | Session Type: Classroom Based

In this hands-on session, pupils will explore a range of different taxidermy animals and discover how animals are adapted to their habitat.

Learning objectives

Pupils will:

  • Learn what a habitat is and that animals need certain resources to live.

  • Learn that, like all living things, animals are adapted to their environment.

  • Be able to identify how some native animals are adapted to their habitat e.g, woodland, pond.

  • Understand that plants and animals in their environment live interdependently.

  • Pupils will learn how to closely observe/investigate taxidermy specimens to identify biological adaptations.

National Curriculum links

This session supports:

  • Pupils to learn and explain what a habitat is.

  • Pupils to learn what animals need to survive.

  • Pupils to identify how some native animals are adapted to their environment.

  • Pupils to understand the interdependence of plants and animals in their habitat.

  • Pupils to understand that animals can be influenced by seasonal and environmental change over time.

Booking information

Availability
Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays
10:30, 11:45, 13:00

Duration
60 minutes

Capacity
Up to 32 children in one class

Price
Free

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