Free Resources & Other Downloads
The following free downloads are available for teachers planning a visit to the Scottish Seabird Centre. Downloads are in pdf format. Resources are available in an editable word format to enable teachers to tailor them to the needs of their pupils, all we ask is that our logo remains as recognition of our work here at the Scottish Seabird Centre. To request resources in word format or if you have any other questions contact the Education Officer education@seabird.org.
All resources can be photocopied for educational purposes.
Topics
- Adaptation : Gannet and seal adaptation - reading, note taking and labeling
- Amazing Puffins : Design a Puffin fact sheet
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Built for the job - flight & feathers : Investigate the job of the feather
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Is it a Bird is it a Plane? : What is a bird, what is a seabird and can you identify one gull from another?
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Label the Bird : Identify and label the gull, the gannet and the puffin.
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Lethal Litter: Working on the beach or in the Centre record the litter you see. Create a display to inform others of the problem of marine litter.
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Life in a Rockpool : Identify and colour the rockpool creatures, read a graph, make a graph, draw a rockpool, fill in the missing words or just do the worsearch!
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Marine Food Chains : Find the links to make the chains and make a gannet food chain mobile.
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Seabird Centre Surroundings : Simple maps to plotting grids, reading compass points and finding features. something for eveyone
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Seabird Classification : Classification key and identification grids.
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Seabird Lifecycles : Cut and stick Puffin life cycle, fill in the missing word Gannet life cycle.
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Seals : Reading and note taking for differing abilities.
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Sorting Living Things : What can you find at the beach, can you sort it out? Investigate different shells and make a class book about them.
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Toxic Tide : Investigate the effects of oil and detergents on feathers.
Art -
Seabird Art Pack
Teachers Info
Teacher info pack
Education Risk Assessment
East Bay Risk Assessment
Further reading, resources and websites:
Scottish Natural Heritage http://snh.gov.uk
National Audubon Society www.audubon.org/bird/puffin
WWF-UK http://www.wwf.org.uk/
The Wildlife Trusts http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/
The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club http://www.the-soc.org.uk/
Learning and Teaching Scotland http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/
Marine Stewardship Council http://www.fishandkids.org/
Whale and Dolphine Conservation Society http://www.wdcs.org.uk/
Acknowledgements
The project has been supported by:
SNH
East Lothian Council,
The Robertson Trust
The Clore Duffield Foundation,
Edinburgh and Lothians Education Business Partnership and
Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian and the
Ernest Cook Trust.
Hugh Fraser Foundation
John Spedan Foundation
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
Lafarge
The Excellence Fund Support for Teachers: IEATS and EEBL,
The Scottish Seabird Centre would like to thank the following people for their encouragement and contributions:
Ray Murray – Outdoor Education, Scottish Borders Council
Fiona Lundius – The Royal High Primary School, City of Edinburgh Council
Olga Nikitik – Pinkie St. Peter’s Primary School, East Lothian Council
Veronica Brunton and Elisabeth Allison – Dunbar Primary School, East Lothian Council
Caroline Brodie – Law Primary School, East Lothian Council
Margaret Bond (Woodburn Primary School) and Pauline Inglis (Gullane Primary School) who, through the Industry and Enterprise Awareness for Teachers and Schools programme (IEATS), contributed ideas for pupil activities.
