Thinking Walks
Organise a Thinking Walk
This section has all you'll need to be able to organise your own Thinking Walk - long or short, big or small!
There are three Thinking Walks available for use:
Amazing Adaptations - discover how plants are adapted to their surroundings
Seed Search - explore the ways that plants disperse their seeds
Plant Spy - uncovering the parts of the plant and what they do
There are pre-designed boards with images and text already completed so you can just 'pick them up and go' and templates that you can adapt to tell the stories specific to your site.
Logistics
Logistics of running a Thinking Walk - download pdf
How to use the templates and pre-designed boards - download pdf
Amazing Adaptations
Amazing Adaptations pre-designed boards - download word docs
Board 1: intro
Board 2: silvery hairs
Board 3: succulents
Board 4: attracting insects
Board 5: rosettes
Board 6: wide base
Board 7: climbing plants
Board 8: triangular shape
Board 9: thorns
Board 10: waxy coating
Board 11: finale
Amazing Adaptations template - download word doc
Amazing Adaptations Bright Ideas suggestions - download word doc
Seed Search
Seed Search pre-designed boards - download word docs
Board 1: intro
Board 2: parachute
Board 3: winged
Board 4: hooked
Board 5: take-away
Board 6: juicyfruit
Board 7: floating
Board 8: pepper-pot
Board 9: exploding
Board 10: finale
Seed Search template - download word doc
Seed Search Bright Ideas suggestions - download word doc
Plant Spy
Plant Spy pre-designed boards - download word doc
Board 1: intro
Board 2: leaves
Board 3: stems
Board 4: flowers
Board 5: petals
Board 6: roots
Board 7: seeds
Board 8: buds
Board 9: finale
Plant Spy template - download word doc
Plant Spy Bright Ideas suggestions - download word doc
Introductory boards
These are useful boards to find out more about the Great Plant Hunt, Darwin and his Sandwalk. They are best placed near the beginning of the walk to help set the scene.
The Great Plant Hunt - download word doc
Darwin the Person - download word doc
Darwin the Thinker - download word doc
Complementary activities
These are optional, extra activities for participants to do before, during or after the Thinking Walk. They offer a good way for spreading the flow of participants around the route and are also designed to be stand alone activities outside of Thinking Walks. These activities are taken from the primary schools' Great Plant Hunt Teachers' Handbook.
Logistics of running complementary activities - download pdf
Make a Darwin Doodle book - download pdf
Make a herbarium specimen - download pdf
Make a newspaper plant pot - download pdf
Design a seed packet - download pdf
Useful info
This extra information is taken from the primary schools' Great Plant Hunt Teachers' Handbook. Although aimed at teachers and schools much of the information is transferable to for use by outdoor organisations and interested individuals. Use this as a springboard when planning your own Thinking Walks.
About RBG Kew, the Wellcome Trust and National Trust - download pdf
About Kew's Millennium Seed Bank - download pdf
Useful references - download pdf
Inspired by Darwin - download pdf
Health and safety information - download pdf
Press Release - download word doc
Credits - download pdf
Advertise your Thinking Walk on the Darwin 200 website
Registration is free and takes about 24 hrs to activate. Once you are registered you can login and input your event.
NB. Please use the words Thinking Walk in your event title e.g. 'Plant Spy Thinking Walk' so that members of the public can easily search for your event. We can also then track how many public Thinking Walks are taking place throughout the UK in 2009. Thank you.
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