AoLE - Humanities and Science & Technology 

Summer 2024 Y2

A workshop with Animal Encounters

We participated in a workshop with Animal Encounters. We met several animals; skunk, armadillo, lizard, snake and a meerkat. We found out information about the animal, their diet and their habitat. What an exciting start to our topic. 


What do we know/ What would we like to find out?

We began our topic by discussing what facts we already know about Zoos. We thought carefully about what we would like to find out during our topic. 

Habitats

After our workshop with Animal Encounters we decided to research different habitats. We investigated the following habitats:

We found out what living things lived in the habitats. 

Mini Beast Hunt

We explored the nature area and participated in a mini beast hunt. We found many minibeasts living in their habitats.  We used a tally chart to gather information and created bar charts to show the number of mini beasts that we found. 

Bug Hotels

Following our minibeast hunt we used natural materials to create bug hotels in our nature area. By the time we had finished there were already several bugs moving in!


Pet Visits 

Throughout the course of the topic we have been lucky to have a number of pets visit us. Each visit we talked about the animals and how to care for them. We met a chameleon, chicks, guinea pigs, a rabbit and a dog. 


Animal Patterns

We have been exploring patterns on animal different animal skins. We drew some different expamples and then chose our favourite one. We recreated the pattern using paint or pastels, and added a silhouette of the animal. 

 Endangered Animals

We researched different endangered animals, looking at what it means for an animal to be endangered and what are the causes of animal endangerment. Once we found out why animals were endangered we then created posters about why animals are endangered to raise awareness. 

Endangered Animal Models

We chose our favourite endangered animal. After looking at the picture carefully and exploring different adjectives to describe the animals we then used clay to create a model of then animal.