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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 |
Stones |
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Build a shelter for minibeasts from stones. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Make artwork with the natural colours of stones e.g. grading from light to dark. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Build a cairn together with different stones. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Hit different stones together to make different sounds. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Choose a stone with different patterns, colour, shape or size that you admire, then share and compare with friends. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Listen to a story about the friendship between rocks and plants (rocks providing mineral, heat etc.). |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Learn about different types of stones. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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See, feel, smell different types of rocks and stone, and guess at how they were made. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Notice the presence of different quantities and types of rocks and stones in different landscapes. |
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Soil and stone |
Stones |
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Compare the growth of plants grown in the open, with plants grown near large rocks acting as heat stores (all other factors e.g. soil depth, should be kept equal). |
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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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Experience different landscapes - such as plains, hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, sea. |
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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. |
