At the zoo
Length of workshop 50 minutes
Which animal does the mystery skull belong to? To find out, teams of students will take part as contestants in our exciting new game show: Guess Zoo?
This workshop takes place in our Sumba House Digital Theatre, an immersive, interactive digital learning space. Students will compare the similarities and differences in the common observable characteristics of living things in order to: identify, name and organise them into groups.
Students will have the opportunity to engage with genuine artefacts from each of the five vertebrate groups, including furs, feathers, skulls and skeletons, and apply their knowledge as they answer questions on our touchscreen walls to progress through the game.
This brand new, exciting workshop will be available to book from Monday 15 April 2024.
Age group: Key Stage 2
Duration: 50 minutes
Capacity: 25 pupils
Learning space: Sumba Schoolroom Workshop
Cost: £50
CURRICULUM LINKS
Year 4 – Living things and their habitats
- Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
- Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment
- Pupils should explore possible ways of grouping a wide selection of living things that include animals and flowering plants and non-flowering plants
- Pupils could begin to put vertebrate animals into groups such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals; and invertebrates into snails and slugs, worms, spiders, and insects.
Year 5 – Living things and their habitats
- Describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird
- Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.
Year 6 – Living things and their habitats
- Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals
- Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.