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Sand dunes

Course description A perfect location for investigating adaptation in plants and looking at the variety of animals and plants in a habitat. Sand dunes, woodlands and marshes provide an amazing sense of variety, diversity and many excellent examples of adaptations. This can be a walk and a talk, or an investigation. Games and sketching can be used to consolidate some concepts and to open their eyes to the wonders of nature. Oxwich is unique in the variety of habitats it provides in a small area walking between sand dunes, beach, marsh and woodland provides opportunities for all scientific investigation.

 

Trip: Sand dunes

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Cost: A Full day is £150 per class of 30 children

Ability level(s): Key Stage 1 | Key Stage 2 | Key Stage 3

Terrain and distance: Sand Dunes, woodland and marshes.  |  3 Miles

Equipment list : Warm clothes, water proofs, walking boots, lunch and a drink.

This activity day has the following curriculum link(s)

Science: Interdependence of Organisms  (4) Through fieldwork, the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments, e.g. identification, nutrition, life cycles, place in environment. KS2. Science: Interdependence of Organisms  (5) The interdependence of living organisms in those two environments and their representation as food chains. KS2. Science: Interdependence of Organisms  (6) The environmental factors that affect what grows and lives in those two environments. KS2. Geography: Geographical Skills Carry out: - At least one group investigation and one independent investigation into a geographical question or issue. - Fieldwork to observe and investigate real places and processes. Ask and answer the questions: - What are the features, the processes and patterns of this place/environment and why do they occur? - How and why is this place/environment changing? What might happen next, in the short/long term and why? - How and why is this place/environment/feature connected to and interdependent with other places/environment/features? - How do environments and people interact? - How can changes be sustainable and why is it important for this place/environment? - What are the geographical issues for people living in this location? - How and why do people’s views on issues differ and what do I think? How can my actions and those of other people make a difference? Locally, nationally and globally? KS3. Geography: Geographical Skills Study the physical world: the processes and landforms of coasts or rivers. KS3. Geography: Geographical Skills (2) Investigative Skills Cartographic Skills Statistical Skills A level Science: Interdependence of Organisms (4) The interdependence of organisms and their representation as food webs, pyramids of numbers and simple energy-flow diagrams. KS3. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (5) How and why food webs are affected by environmental factors, e.g. light intensity, water availability, temperature, and their fluctuations. KS3. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (6) How human activity affects the global environment, e.g. acid rain, greenhouse effect, and the measures taken to minimise any negative effects. KS3. This is also a good environment to look at “how humans affect the environment” in terms of tourism, erosion and litter. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (7) How humans affect the local environment, e.g. litter, water pollution, noise pollution. KS2.

Trip: Sand dunes

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Cost: A Full day is £150 per class of 30 children

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