Suitable for KS2

Timing: 1 hr 30 minute facilitated session plus an optional 30 minute independent visit to the galleries

Cost: £70 per session 
         £60 for Coventry local authority schools
This session can also be used in partnership with Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Please email learning@theherbert.org for more details.

Join us for a unique opportunity for pupils to get up close to our natural history collections. Pupils will study animals from our displays to identify the different habitats in which they live as well as looking at how animals are adapted to their environment. Pupils will also spend time examining our tropical beetle collection and creating a key to identify them, in addition to drawing their favourite animal and beetle from observation. The learning session finishes with a handling session, giving pupils a rare opportunity to gain a sensory based experience of the creatures in our collection.

Learning Outcomes

By taking part in this session your children will build on the following skills:

• Improved speaking and listening through group discussion and interaction.
• Increased knowledge and understanding of living things in their environment.
• Further consideration and evaluation of evidence.
• Exploration and development of ideas in design, using their imaginations.
• An improved knowledge and understanding of the functions of habitats for animal and plant life.

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