Key Stage 2
Happening Habitats
‘Happening Habitats’ is a broad look at marine habitats from estuaries, sea cliffs, mangroves and local shores. Your group will learn how to use identification keys for the inhabitants of each habitat, and understand feeding relationships using food chains.
Can include: Habitat Quiz, Seashore Safari, Discovery Zone or Rockpool Ramble.
NC targets addressed:
KS2 and KS3
Science - Scientific enquiry, Life processes and living things.
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New for 2008
Brilliant Biodiversity
Use Living Coasts species to discover all about Life Process and living things. A broad over view of Science at Living Coasts including: Variation and classification, adaptation and competition and feeding relationships.
Can include: Fish identification, Food Chain game or seashore survey.
NC targets addressed:
KS2 and KS3
Science - Scientific enquiry, Life processes and living things.
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New for 2008
Pressure Seekers
Learn about forces by finding out how Grecians used to dive for sponges and explorers such as Jacques Yves Cousteu revealed the wonders of the ocean. Can include our ‘Deep trouble’ quiz, make a Cartesian diver or dive equipment demonstration.
NC targets addressed:
KS2 and KS3
Science – Forces and motion and Scientific enquiry.
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New for 2008
Seaside Shenanigans (Joint package with Torquay Museum)
This package looks at the local seaside past and present. Why Torbay is a seaside holiday resort and how and why it has changed.
There is an additional charge for the Museum visit of £2 for each child.
Will include: self guided Seaside sensory tour, Torquay’s seaside history presentation, Barnacle bingo and visit to Living Coasts.
NC targets addressed:
KS1 and KS2
Geography - Geographical enquiry and skills, Knowledge and understanding of places, Knowledge and understanding of patterns and processes, Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development.
History – Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past, historical enquiry.
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