Through guided exploration, children discover how minibeasts like bees, worms, and beetles pollinate plants, recycle nutrients into fertile soil, and nourish the food chain - helping them appreciate the essential role these tiny creatures play in our environment.
Students will:
- Use their senses to explore
- Learn about why minibeasts are so important
- Pot up a plant to attract local minibeasts
- Go on a discovery walk
Key Focuses:
- Relationship between plants and invertebrates
- Learn how invertebrates help gardens to grow
- Minibeast observations in different habitats and their connection to the plant world
Curriculum Links:
- Science
- Foundation to Level 2
- Scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments. VC2S2H01
- Levels 3 and 4
- Living things can be grouped based on their observable features, and can be distinguished from non-living things. VC2S4U01
- Living things have life cycles and depend on each other and the environment to survive. VC2S4U02
- Consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships VC2S4U03
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