Transcript Mudchute Education Project

Mudchute Education Project
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Pond
Detectives
Welcoming
Guidance
Notes
Sheep &
Wool
Animal Tour
About the farm
Exploring
Trees
Sensory
Trail
School based
Activities
Arranging
a session
Details
Wildflower
Hunt
Food &
Dairying
Membership
Package
Charges for
schools
Membership
Details
Outreach
workshops
Minibeast
Hunting
The five
sense
Mudchute Education Project
Welcome to the new activities
programme
The new programme sees many of the
original activities remaining with some
additional new topics. The education
centre provides activities for key stages
1&2 and Nursery groups in both formal
and informal educational establishments.
The list of new topics will be added to a
termly basis where possible, so please
feel free to contact the education officer
to recommend topics or areas of study
which your school and others may find
useful. Please note: all images published
with consent from visiting schools and
groups.
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About the farm
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The Mudchute Park and Farm, on the Isle of
Dogs, is a 32-acre site with a public park and
one of the largest urban farms in the country
boasting cows, sheep, horses, goats, pigs,
ducks, rabbits, chickens, llamas and Alpacas' !
The Mudchute has a café, riding school and
stables, a shop, pet’s corner, nature trail, Living
Classroom, Nursery, Children’s Growing
Project and After School Club.
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The Mudchute Education project based at the
Mudchute Park & Farm provides structured
Educational, farm and horticultural topics that
are closely linked to the demands of the
national Curriculum. The Education Project’s
has a classroom, a large wildlife area attracting
a wide diversity of animals and plants, the
Nature Trail, and two ponds, hedgerows and
grassland. The Mudchute is continually
improving its facilities for both education and
public purposes providing an experience of
country life for London’s inner-city and an
excellent base for study.
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Arranging a session
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All sessions with the Education Officer run from 10 am-2:pm to suit individual schools, except for
independent use, nursery and in-school sessions. Schools should arrange to bring packed lunches, which
can be eaten, in the Classroom. The activities will be set up and led by the Education Officer (not for
independent use) but schools are expected to provide supervision and support. A minimum of four adults
is recommended a preliminary visit to discuss your class and curriculum needs as well as options for the
day. BOOKINGS CAN ONLY BE TAKEN UP TO TWO TERMS IN ADVANCE.
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The cost for a session is outlined further in this pack. When emailing to arrange a session your details will
later confirmed and your school invoiced for the cost by email. If you need to cancel please email as soon
as possible, as a £25.00 cancellation charge will be made for bookings cancelled with less that 10 days
notice. Please email to book a session or post/fax a copy of the booking form at the rear of this pack,
email: [email protected]
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Charges for schools
• Revised details coming soon!
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School Based Activities
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These activities are available with an introductory session conducted by the Mudchute Education Officer
at your school; all equipment and teachers notes will be brought to your school. All are suitable for key
stage 1,2 and nursery.
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Hatch & Brood
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Incubate and rear chicks or ducklings as a half term project. Incubator and eggs supplied. Teacher’s
notes include suggested activities and topic information. Incubating, hatching and rearing chicks in your
classroom as a half term project. Key stage 1&2 and nursery .
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Animal Tour
WHAT THE DAY INVOLVES
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The children take park in several activities based
on the farm animals
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Painting: Add to our trail of farm animals walking
along the ceiling of the centre-every child
attending leaves behind something for us…..
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Farm Tour: We tour the farm, looking at
animals, stroking them and feeding them. Back at
the centre the children paint animals to make a
large collage which goes back to school.
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Animal Modelling: Modelling of farm animals
using pictures and posters to help the children
identify the different park of an animal.
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Pond Detectives
This session can be altered depending upon the age range and ability of the
group, but will include sections from the following areas.
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Pond Dip: A chance to dip one or both of our ponds, to investigate
what lives in the pond. Back in the classroom the group will identify
their findings with the use of keys, draw and colour them to add to the
large pond collage which will go back to school.
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Pond Webbing: The group consider food chains and make ‘food-web’
mobiles to demonstrate the principle. This activity is further enhanced
by our pond food-web game, which shows how energy is transferred
along the chain and what happen if some chains are broken by
environmental changes.
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Frog lifecycle: In this session the group will examine the frog lifecycle
using books and puzzles to understand metamorphosis. They will also
look at how the frog’s lifecycle helps it to exploit habitats.
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Pond Art: A creative activity where the children can either make a
cardboard or origami ‘jumping frog’ or a brightly coloured dragonfly.
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Pond Detectives: Practical and fun activities exploring the plants and
animals of the pond habitat. Discover the links through food chains and
life cycles.
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Sheep & Wool
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This session will focus on sheep, what they look and feel like
including differences in their wool, look at how wool is used. The
session is divided into four main areas:
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Sheep and Shepherd’s Year
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Shearing wool and its uses
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History of wool
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Practical Activities
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Sheep and the Shepherd's Year: The group will visit the
sheep, stroking their wool and feeding them, (please note that a
sheep can only be tethered and stroked when not in lamb). Back
in the classroom they can investigate the shepherd's year from
dipping, lambing and shearing times. The group can then make a
model or a drawing of a sheep.
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Shearing, wool and its uses: The group will be shown a fleece
and look at the different types of wool from different types of
sheep. The group discusses the possible uses of wool and its final
products.
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History of wool: The group look how wool was processed
during times past and how it is done today. The group will be
encouraged to discuss the properties of wool and therefore why
it is used.
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Practical Activities: Carding, spinning and felting is first
discussed, exploring the wide uses of felt. The group explore all
these areas. What ever they make goes back to school.
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Sensory Trail
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This session encourages the group to explore the Mudchute using their five senses and
therefore split into five sections. Following a brief introduction to the farm, their sense and
the sensory trail pack, the group will be split into five groups.
– Sight: The group feel and look at the bark of different trees, their shape and the shape of
its leaves describing how they look and make bark and leaf rubbings to add to the large
tree collage which will go back to school.
– Taste: The group explores the different taste between cows and goats milk and cheeses?
The group will be encouraged to discuss the differences in taste, texture ad flavour.
– Sound: Using tape recorders the group record the noises of animals when they are
eating, moving and ‘talking’. The sensory trail contains both recorders and animal feed.
– Smell: The group sniff and discuss which thing they hate or like, whether it is strong or
delicate etc. The group must smell a hay bundle, a pigsty, a mature heap and a leather
saddle, noting their opinion on our recording sheet.
– Touch: The pack contains examples of animals coats but the children will also get the
chance to touch the real things. The group discusses the differences between the coats is
of a particular type and length and how humans can use it.
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Back in the Classroom - the children review their findings and produce a graph of their
favourite and least favourite smells. Try to identify the different animal coats with ‘feely’ bags
and play the ‘Listening Game’ using their tape of animal noises.
Food & Dairying
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The day begins with an introduction which considers where food comes from, how it was made in the past and
how it is made today. The introduction will lead onto the following activities:
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Where does food come from? The children are encouraged to look at the food on the supermarket shelves and
explore their origins. This activity will cover various food types from butter to chocolate to investigate how we
change one type of food into another.
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Milk: The children will visit the goats and cows, feed them and look at a goat being milked. They can experience
how it is done, what the milk looks like and how warm if feels. This activity leads onto why milk is produced by
animals and how it ends up in the shops. The children will then draw the parts of the milk process chain to make a
large picture.
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Food Changes: The children will investigate how one food can be changed into another, wheat to flour to bread.
They will then make food changes themselves by making butter, yoghurt and ice-cream from milk. Looking at
traditional foods from the farm, includes making dairy products, such as goat milk, yoghurt and bread KS 1&2.
Curriculum Focus: Science AT 1,2 &3. History AT 1 & Study Unit: Food and Farming.
The five senses
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This session uses both indoor and outdoor activities focusing on the environment and the five senses. The
day is split into four areas.
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Touch: The children join in activities and games exploring their sense of touch, these include: Meet a tree
game (a blindfolded activity which explores the different bark textures of trees). Feely Boxes. Touch
Collage: (a collection of materials found naturally at Mudchute).
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Sound: The games and activities in this section include: Ear game: demonstrates why we need both ears.
Sound Maps: Animal Sounds: taping the animals noises and a role play session. Bat & Moth game:
demonstrates how bats hunt moths.
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Smell: The children explore their sense of smell by smelling various areas of the farm and using a series of
smell boxes, having to guess the smells hidden inside (nothing too horrible!).
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Sight: The games and activities include: Unnatural Trail: discover the unnatural objects hidden around the
Mudchute Nature Trail. Camouflage worms: a game which demonstrates camouflage in nature with our
woolly worms. Eye, Eye game: demonstrates why we need two eyes to judge distances. Colour Chips:
investigates different colours in nature.
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Additional Activities: The following are only available on request by prior arrangement. Taste Buds: tasting
farm produce and other foods blindfolded. Guess the Animal game: using questions only, the children have
to guess the identity of the creature they are (label attached to their back). Web of Life: demonstrates a
food web.
Minibeast Hunting
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What the day involves: The day begins with an
introduction to minibeasts, what do they look like,
the different types, where they can be found, etc.
This is followed by What Minibeast am I? and/or
Minibeast True or False games. The group will
then be led through a series of practical activities
exploring minibeasts.
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Minibeast Hunt: The group will be supervised
around Mudchute whilst looking for minibeasts.
This will involve tree beating, using pooters and
bug jars. Back in the classroom the children will
try to identify their findings with the use of keys
and guides and draw them under magnification.
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Lifecycles: Using slides and the OHP, the group
will be introduced to lifecycles and
metamorphosis. The children will play the Web of
Life game and produce a picture of a lifecycle in
either a dragonfly or moth.
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Model Minibeasts: The children make a model of
either a dragonfly, butterfly or spider to take back
to home or school. All models will attempt to be
anatomically correct!
Wildflower Hunt
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Following an introduction to the types of flowers
that may be seen, these are investigated as to their
importance in food chains. The group will play a
Flower True or False game and then undertake the
following activities: Investigate a Wildflower:
Choosing a common wildflower (such as
Dandelion), the children identify the parts of a
flower under magnification. Then they will have to
construct their own flower using tissue paper and
pipe-cleaners to include stems, leaves, petals and
stamens. Adopt a Wildflower: The children
choose a flower, draw and describe it, name its
local conditions (e.g. shade, damp etc.), count its
petals, leaves and the number of insects on the
flower. Bee Watch: The children choose a patch
of wild flowers and observe the bees that visit. By
noting how many bees visit, what colour attracts
the most bees, a class histogram can be produced.
This activity will also look at insect pollination and
why there is a dual benefit for both flowers and
insects in this method. Colour chips: Using a
range of colours the children try to find what
colours exist in nature at the Mudchute.
Exploring Trees
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Following an introduction the group will play two games,
What Tree am I? and the Tree True or False game which
covers types of trees, trees through the seasons and parts
of a tree. Bark & Leaves: This activity explores why trees
need both bark and leaves, how leaves make food for
trees and other plants, and what makes leaves green. The
group will ‘Meet a Tree’, take bark rubbings and collect
different leaves to make leaf impressions which will be
added to a large tree collage to take back to school.
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Trees as Food & Shelter: This session discusses the role
of trees as food and shelter for both humans and other
life. The activity will help to trace the food seen on the
supermarket shelves to its tree origins and tree uses to
our everyday lives.
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Where do Trees come from? This session includes a
short discussion on how trees spread, encouraging the
children to think about seed dispersal, and how seeds and
plants have adapted for this purpose. It will include
sorting seeds by type of dispersal, design their own
‘helicopter seed’ model and play the Seed Survival Game.
Tree form: We will look at the shape of trees, and its
leaves, height and how we can identify them. This will be
followed by a spot of tree identification around
Mudchute’s Education Centre.
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GUIDANCE NOTES FOR SCHOOL GROUPS USING THE MUDCHUTE
Moving Around the Site
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Use the site map to help guide your group around the park. For groups that have not booked a
classroom, the public toilets, café, picnic tables and main offices are located in the Stable Building. For
groups that have booked a classroom, the facilities are located at the Living Classroom Farm Courtyard.
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There are pathways around the site to allow access to the animals and plants. The development of the
Mudchute is on-going, so at many times there may be building works which restrict access to certain
parts of the park.
Clothing and Equipment
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Old clothing is best, as the park can become muddy in Winter and dusty in the Summer.
Winter
Summer
Waterproof coat
Light coat in case of rain
Tough shoes or boots
Trousers to protect against nettles and brambles
Hat, scarf, gloves
Long sleeved top to protect against sunburn
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If you have booked a specific activity all resources and equipment will be provided.
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If you are using the park independently, then the following would be useful:-
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clipboards, paper and pencils, a camera and tape recorder.
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GUIDANCE NOTES FOR SCHOOL GROUPS USING THE MUDCHUTE
Safety and Responsibilities
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Ensure an appropriate staff/pupil ratio
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Be aware of the need to maintain control over your group whilst working in a public park
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Discourage the children from picking plants and flowers. Encourage recording of observations by sketching,
photographs and tape recordings.
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Brief the children on the need to remain calm and gentle around the animals and to be particularly careful
when visiting the horses.
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Only feed the animals with prior permission
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Collect all litter and dispose of in the bins provided.
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Ensure that hands are washed before eating, especially following contact with the animals or pond water.
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In case of emergency, telephones are located in the Main Office and at the Children’s Centre.
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A First Aid kit is located in the Living Classroom, Main Office building and in the café.
Membership Details
I would like to enrol our school/group as a member of the Mudchute Education Project.
I enclosed a cheque for £150.00 made payable to the Mudchute Park & Farm to cover one years membership.
Name ____________________________________________________
Position __________________________________________________
School/Group ______________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
______________________________Post Code ____________________
Telephone __________________________________________________
Head Teacher _______________________________________________
Link Teacher ________________________________________________
Signed _____________________________________________________
Date ______________________________________________________
• The link teacher is an
interested member of staff,
who can liaise between the
Mudchute.
• Please return completed
forms to Denise Lara ,
Education Officer,
Mudchute Park & Farm, Pier
Street, Isle of Dogs, London
E.14 3HP or e.mail:
[email protected]
Outreach workshops
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Touch it—Feel It:
What the workshop involves: The day begins with an introduction to the workshop. The
children join in activities exploring their sense of touch: A collection of materials found
naturally at Mudchute plus a range of small animals and the royal pythons. The group will
try to identify the minibeasts with the use of keys and books. History of wool: The group
look how wool was processed during times past and how it is done today. The group will
be encouraged to discuss the properties of wool and therefore why it is used.
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Animals, animals, animals:
What the workshop involves: This workshop is available to schools that can not travel to
the Mudchute. A wide range of animals are used: small animals, baby animals and the royal
pythons. The children join in activities exploring their sense of touch and smell.
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Bread and Butter making:
What the workshop involves: The day begins with an introduction to the workshop. This
workshop can be altered depending upon the age range and ability of the group, but will
include sections from the following areas. Bread and butter making and adding different
ingredients to the butter and discussing the results. The group will be exploring their sense
of taste, touch and smell.