Seaweed Survival and Adaptations - Stage 2 & 3

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Learn how this vital living thing grows, survives and reproduces in its watery habitat, to produce up to 70 per cent of the worlds oxygen. Fine tune scientific skills by creating your very own Herbarium voucher for further observation.

Stages

Stage 2 and 3 Science and Technology

Location

Rathborne Lodge

Duration

2 hours

Cost

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Observing the features and characteristics of Seaweed and how these adaptations enable them to survive and complete their life-cycle in a marine environment
Examining seaweed groups and how they fit in the world of living things
Building Scientific skills and knowledge of local seaweeds by creating a Seaweed Herbarium pressing and accurately labelling it, to take back to school

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

SCIENCE - Living World  
Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things (ST2-4LW-S)  
Examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things (ST3-4LW-S)

Supported Syllabus Outcomes

SCIENCE - Working Scientifically
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations (ST2-1WS-S) 
Collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions (ST3-1WS-S)

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