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Animal Homes

From holts and setts to forms and dreys, animal homes are just as varied as their owners. Real examples of nests and similar structures constructed by minibeasts, birds and mammals allow students to investigate what are they made from, why were they built and, most importantly, which animal belongs to which home!
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Busy Bees

Honeybee numbers have crashed terribly in recent years, but why should that worry us? Uncover the hidden world of these vital and complex insects. Practise the bee dance, get a bees-eye view of the world and unravel the secrets of how to make honey.
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Food Chains

Learn the differences between producers, predators and prey through dressing up. Play games to show how all parts of a food chain depend upon each other. Get hands on with amazing carnivore, herbivore and omnivore skulls to investigate their differences and see if you can identify who is who.
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Green Plants

Without plants, humans could not survive, but plants are so unlike us, they seem like aliens. Explore through role play what a plant needs to grow, then get hands-on with some live plants to name their different parts and determine their functions. Play the pollination game, handle a variety of real seeds and discover the diverse ways that they are spread.
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Habitats

Forests, deserts, grasslands, caverns – habitats come in a bewildering variety. Discover what animals need from their habitat in order to survive. Find out through roleplay which animals live in which habitat and why they are so well suited to living there, which introduces adaptations. Then put your detective skills to the test by matching genuine animal artefacts with their true habitat.
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Hibernation and Winter Survival

Explore what seasonal changes happen within a woodland during the winter and why this causes problems for many of its residents. Experience what hibernation is like and why it can be risky. And discover alternative ways of surviving winter used by animals that don’t hibernate.
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Lifecycles

Certain organisms undergo extreme changes through their lives – their adult and juvenile forms may even be accidentally identified as separate species! Experience through roleplay what a seed needs to grow. Look at real eggs and nests to see how birds start their lives. Follow the transformation of a butterfly by dressing-up, then try sorting insect life-cycle models into their correct order.
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Let’s Talk Wolf

Meet Wilf the wolf puppet as we reveal the surprising ways that wolves communicate with each other. Take a closer look at how posture and body language are used by both wolves and humans to show their emotions. Test your senses against those of a wolf through fun challenges and compete in a howl-off as we teach you to do it properly!
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Nocturnal Animals

Find out why some native animals prefer coming out at night and explore their extraordinary nocturnal world. How does a badger recognise other members of its clan? Why do owls have wonky ears? How can bats catch moths even in complete darkness? You’ll discover the answers through interactive activities and innovative games.
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Predators

Enter the dangerous world of predatory animals to find out if they’re really as bad as we believe. Meet some unexpected British predators and investigate the benefits and drawbacks of being a carnivore. Explore the remarkable senses used by hunting animals and discover why predators are vital to their environments.
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Variety of Life

Millions of animals share Planet Earth with us in a dazzling variety of shapes, sizes, colours and lifestyles. Learn how scientists practise classification by sorting plastic models. Dress up to discover how to distinguish between backboned animals such as birds, mammals and reptiles – who has fur, feathers, scales or gills? Investigate similarities and differences by getting hands-on with genuine animal artefacts.
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Awesome Owls

Hear about an owl’s terrible table manners, what they like to eat and how they catch their food in the dark. Find out which adaptations make these birds so stealthy and if owls really do all say ‘too-whit-too-whoo’.
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