Delve into the diary of Jamie Mottershead, a conservationist trying to stop a nefarious poacher. But she’s mysteriously disappeared. Now it’s up to you to follow her trail and stop the poacher before it’s too late.
With narrative and guidance from our Education Officer, students will work together to follow a paper-trail of puzzles, revealing riddles and cracking clues while exploring African ecosystems.
Age group: KS3
Duration: 50 minutes
Capacity: 30 pupils
Learning Space: Classroom layout – with tables and chairs. Access to projector, computer/laptop and sound necessary.
Puzzles will draw from the following KS3 curriculum links
Science – Working Scientifically
- Make predictions using scientific knowledge and understanding
- Interpret observations and data, including identifying patterns and using observations, measurements and data to draw conclusions.
Geography – Locational knowledge
- Extend locational knowledge and deepen spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa… focusing on its environmental regions.
Geography – Geographical skills and fieldwork
- Build on their knowledge of globes, maps and atlases and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom and in the field.
- Interpret Ordnance Survey maps in the classroom and the field, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs.