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This week (22 – 28 April) we’re putting the focus on the best classroom – the great outdoors!
We have a range of activities for educators, parents and learners. Join #WOLW24 and start planning your outdoor learning today.
Short outdoor active learning ideas to help learn about Curlews:
Build a nest!
You will need:
- Outdoor space with natural materials
- Leaves and twigs
Challenge your pupils to collect natural materials to make a nest for a ground nesting bird. Work in groups or one big team!
Extend: Provide pegs, tweezers, pairs of chopsticks or lollipop sticks to use to mimic the beak movement of a bird.
Take a photo of your nests! How many people can you fit in your nest?
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Dig it!
Curlew use their long beak to poke through soft mud to find their food.
You will need
- A spade or trowels
- Outdoor space with soil
Dig a small area of ground. How many worms can you find? Imagine how hard Curlews have to work to dig out their food!
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Camouflage game
Curlew’s speckled plumage helps them stay camouflaged in the grassland. Play some games to help emphasise the effectiveness of camouflage.
You will need:
- Cut pieces of wool of different colours into ‘worms’ and place around your outside area.
- Challenge your pupils to find the wool ‘worms’.
- Gather the wool worms in.
- Count how many of each colour.
Ask which colours were easiest/ hardest to spot?
Create Curlew Art
Collect natural materials to create a collage of a curlew.
Take a photo of your Curlew!
Colour in a Curlew egg – Colouring template
#LoveOurRivers
This #WOLW24 we’re asking you to pledge your allegiance to our rivers — by promising to love them and by making some everyday changes that will help us in our wider mission to improve water quality.
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