KS2 Rainforest
Pupils learn about the unique and diverse rainforest habitat and explore the many everyday products that come from it.
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Pupils explore the amazing diversity of products that originate from the rainforest, including home products, fruit and spices.
Pupils are also given the opportunity to look closely at rainforest plants and compare them to familiar plants that grow at home.
Learning outcomes
We design our sessions to match the learning outcomes in the national curriculum. All our sessions have a cross-curricular approach and are tailored to suit the educational needs of your group.
We aim to give pupils opportunities to work scientifically in areas that are difficult or impossible to create in the school environment.
This session offers pupils the opportunity to:
- Understand the rainforest habitat.
- Appreciate the diversity of products.
- Explore and handle a wide range of products.
- Smell a range of spices and fruits.
- Read and record information photographically or by sketching.
- Present interesting facts to the group.
- Appreciate the importance of this habitat and the need for conservation.
- Consider how the loss of the rainforest would impact on our lives.
Curriculum links
This KS2 visit supports and enhances the Science and Geography curriculums offered in schools.
Science
Lower KS2
Year 3 – Plants
- Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.
Year 4 – Living things and their habitats
- Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Upper KS2
Year 6 – Evolution and inheritance
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Identify how plants are adapted to their environment.
Geography
KS2
Human and physical geography
Describe and understand key aspects of:
- Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.
- Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.
