Free Resources, Topic Plans & 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.

Topic Plans

Fancy a bit of help with next term’s topic plan? To help ease the load we have several CfE topic plans available to download and adapt to suit your needs:

• The seashore 
• Under the sea 
• Seaside town 
• Seabird storyline 
• Coastal conservation

Resources

• Adaptation: Gannet and seal adaptation - reading, note taking and labeling
• Amazing Puffins: Design a puffin fact sheet
• Built for the job - flight & feathers: Investigate the job of the feather
• Is it a Bird is it a Plane?: What is a bird, what is a seabird and can you identify one gull from another?
• Label the Bird: Identify and label the gull, the gannet and the puffin.
• 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.
• 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!
• Marine Food Chains: Find the links to make the chains and make a gannet food chain mobile.
• Seabird Centre Surroundings: Simple maps to plotting grids, reading compass points and finding features. Something for eveyone
• Seabird Classification: Classification key and identification grids.
• Seabird Lifecycles: Puffin Life Cycle; cut and stick or Gannet Life Cycle; fill in the missing word.
• Seals: Reading and note taking for differing abilities.
• 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.
• Toxic Tide: Investigate the effects of oil and detergents on feathers.
• The Environment Zone Pack:

Art

• Seabird art pack
• Grey seal art pack part1
• Grey seal art pack part 2

Teachers Info

• Teacher information pack
• Education Risk Assessment
• East Bay Risk Assessment

Further reading, resources and websites:

• Scottish Natural Heritage
• RSPB
• Marine Conservation Society
• Adopt a Beach
• National Audubon Society
• WWF-UK
• The Wildlife Trusts
• The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club
• Learning and Teaching Scotland
• Marine Stewardship Council
• Whale and Dolphine Conservation Society

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.