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School Workshop: Brilliant Botanists (year 5 and 6)
A two-hour primary school workshop in which your students to use their scientific enquiry skills to impress a community of scientists and secure an invite to join their team!
Workshop overview
A visiting teacher
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Practical information
This workshop enables students to:
- Decide how to conduct a ‘pattern seeking’ scientific enquiry in order to answer a given question.
- Practise their scientific enquiry skills - making predictions, following a method, taking measurements, presenting data, using data to answer a given question, drawing conclusions using scientific knowledge.
- Describe the physical conditions in the Rainforest Biome and Mediterranean Biome.
- Make predictions about the ways in which plants can be affected by changes in the environment.
We've designed the workshop to help teachers cover the following subject areas:
In Science pupils should be taught about working scientifically. This involves using different types of scientific enquiry in order to answer a given question and using a variety of different scientific enquiry skills. These skills include taking measurements, recording data, drawing conclusions based on data and observations, using scientific knowledge and understanding to explain findings and reporting and presenting findings from enquiries.
Pupils should be taught to identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways (evolution and inheritance)
Pupils should be taught to recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
In Geography, pupils should be taught to locate the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. They should be able to describe and understand key aspects of physical geography such as climate zones and biomes.
In Maths, pupils should be taught to calculate and interpret the mean as an average.
This takes place in our Core workshop room, the Rainforest Biome and the Mediterranean Biome.
The workshop costs £8.75 per pupil, with a minimum charge of £175 per group (includes VAT). Maximum group size is 35. The cost includes:
- a facilitated workshop with our Education Team
- free access to the Eden site for the day
- all equipment needed for the workshop
- free teaching resources enabling your class to prepare for the workshop and to follow up on the activity (download a sample copy)
- a personal welcome from the Education Team at the entrance
- a base for your bags in our purpose-built education centre, The Core
- a space to eat your own lunch
The price includes free entry for accompanying adult helpers, whose participation is essential to the success of the day (please note our suggested adult/pupil ratios are as follows: Early Years Foundation Stage, 1:3; Key Stage 1, 1:6; Key Stage 2 and 3, 1:10; Key Stage 4, 1:15; Key Stage 5, 1:20).
You’re welcome to bring more helpers if you’d like; for a charge of £15 per adult. We also offer a free preparatory visit to Eden for teachers wanting to plan their school trip, which should be booked in advance.
Find out the steps we’ve taken to ensure that all participants on Eden Project school visits are safe, with our covid-secure operating procedures.
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