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Animal Tracks (Numeracy)

29th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

This activity involves finding animal tracks outside, using track identification guides to work out what made the track and calculating how many toes you have found! For younger pupils these numbers can be used for practicing a variety of number processes. For older pupils use the tracks identified for more complicated problems and to create various times tables.

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Bird Nest Maths

29th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

A very flexible activity that can be as simple as putting the number of eggs into the nest shown on the card or can be extended to more complicated sums.

Croftland, Early, Expressive Arts, First, Garden, Health & Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Sciences, Second, Session Plan, Spring, Step-by-step instructions, Summer, Technology, Woodland

Create a Treasure Hunt Trail

29th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Work in teams to create treasure hunt trail clues and ask someone to follow them to see if it works. This is best done outside in a garden or an outdoor space that is not too big. Create 5 clues, each one will lead the players of the treasure hunt to the next clue.

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Create Your Own Craters

21st February 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Learn about meteorites in this interactive beach activity

Autumn, Languages, Mathematics, Sciences, Seashore, Second, Spring, Step-by-step instructions, Summer, Third & Fourth

Explore Like a Victorian

22nd September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

It was during the Victorian period that many plants and animals were given the names we now use to label them. Imagine you have travelled back in time and you find yourself in the late 1800s; the time when this was all happening. Like famous nature explorer, John Muir, you are setting off to discover the natural world and name…

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Frog Lifecycle

8th April 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

A progressive series of activities to learn about life cycle of a frog.

Croftland, Early, Expressive Arts, First, Freshwater & River, Garden, Health & Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Sciences, Session Plan, Spring, Step-by-step instructions, Summer, Woodland

Hapa Zome (leaf dye) and symmetry

1st July 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Hapa Zome means “leaf dye” in Japanese. It is a traditional Japanese art from of leaf printing, where the pigments (or colours) within a leaf are transferred onto cloth or paper.

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Mimicking wildlife to the finish line

1st July 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Animals comes in all shapes and sizes and move in many different ways. In this activity, participants mimic the movement of other animals. A length of racetrack is then set up to find out how long each animal movement takes to reach the finishing line.

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Mud Kitchen

29th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

This is an activity about making a mud kitchen and using it to learn about measuring, estimating, basic fraction identification, literacy. Making mud pies and imaginary cooking using natural outdoor materials seems to have always been a part of playing outdoors. It’s a great way to engage with the outdoors and get hands on experience by exploring materials, role playing…

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Natural Mandalas

29th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Learn about Mandala’s and create your own out of natural material.

Autumn, Croftland, Early, Expressive Arts, First, Freshwater & River, Garden, Health & Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Moorland, Mountain, Sciences, Seashore, Second, Session Plan, Social Studies, Spring, Step-by-step instructions, Summer, Technology, Winter, Woodland

Learning Resources

Animal Tracks (Numeracy)

Bird Nest Maths

Create a Treasure Hunt Trail

Create Your Own Craters

Frog Lifecycle

Mimicking wildlife to the finish line

Mud Kitchen

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