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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Identify common rocks in the region. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Put rocks in a garden to catch and store heat energy in places where it is needed. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Hear a story of how rocks were made and are still moving very slowly. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Give thanks to stones and all the different things they give to us, e.g. warmth, buildings, walls, soil, a place for minibeasts to live. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Learn the main ways which rocks are formed (if children interested can use names igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) and how that relates to forming soils, thus our food. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Explore which types of soil and stone resources are in the region and how that impacts on the different plants and animals that can live there. |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Play in different landscapes - beach, rivers, woodlands etc. |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Experience different landscapes - such as plains, hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, sea. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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See, touch and collect different stones. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Climb rocks and experience the heat and texture at different times of the day. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Look underneath stones and see what you find (minibeasts, mycellium etc). |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Learn about soil erosion and how to prevent it. |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Find out how the landscape affects what lives in each place (river vs sea vs forest etc). |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Research how the local landscapes were formed, and how they are still changing. Children can share this with each other e.g. by a guided visualisation in which the children are all lying down with Eyes closed, and we 'zoom' back in time and then slowly visualise how our landscape was formed. |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Go for a walk to observe and take photographs of different habitats (e.g. the types of plants which live on the hilltop compared to valley floor, marsh, or next to the river). |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Appreciate different landscapes and their various gifts e.g. in a small group draw a big picture of a certain landscape and illustrate the gifts/benefits of it for nature and/or people. Different groups appreciate different landscapes. Hear from each of the different groups and relate to the principle 'Use and Value Diversity'. |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Show appreciation and sing thanks to the landscapes for letting them play there. |
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Soil and stone |
Soil textures and soil tests |
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Dig a hole to see the different layers of soil, their colour and depth (topsoil, subsoil, bedrock). |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Observe different soils in the region e.g. in a farm, wetland, and forest. |
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Soil and stone |
Experiencing different landscapes (beaches, hills, forests, fields). |
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Learn different vocabulary, e.g. clay, soil, sand, humus, stone, fossil, river, hill, mountain, valley. |
