Want to learn about who lives on the islands of North Berwick, why they live there, what they eat or even how climate change is effecting them? Do you want to solve a wildlife crime using forensic science, build your own recycled boat or take part in a debate about fishing? Then book a visit and try out one of our new Curriculum for Excellence linked educational workshops. We will happily adapt and modify workshops to suit your requirements.
Curriculum for Excellence First Level:- Who lives on an island like this? Animal Homes /habitats
- What a waste - litter
- Who’s eating who? – Food Chains
- Seal Craft – Lifecycles
- Water water everywhere - Water Cycle
- Seabird Survival – Food chains and webs
- Birds Rock – Geology
- I Gannet Believe it – Food chains & webs & adaptation
- CSI Seabird – Wildlife crime (Available after Easter)
- Biodiversity Bingo & Debate
- What a Waste - litter
- Water Water Everywhere - Water Cycle
- Seal Craft – Lifecycles
- Full of Energy
Who lives on an island like this? Animal Homes /habitats
Through audience participation, interactive games and a visit to the discovery centre you will investigate the essentials of life, gain an understanding of what a habitat is, and how the physical features of an area influence the variety of living things.
Who lives on an island like this? - Experiences & Outcomes
First level: What is the difference between litter and waste? Learn about the problems of marine litter and take part in a “Rubbish quiz”. Learn the reduce, reuse recycle song while sorting out your lunchbox!
What a waste - Experiences & Outcomes 1st level
Second level: What is the difference between litter and waste? Learn about the problems of marine litter and take part in a “Rubbish quiz”. Join us in the “Build a Rubbish Boat Challenge” and make a boat out of recycled material – will it float?
What a waste - Experiences & Outcomes 2nd level
Who’s eating who? – Food Chains
Join in with interactive songs, games and art activities to explore examples of marine food chains and develop an understanding of how animals and plants depend on each other for food.
Who is eating who? Experiences & Outcomes
Investigate the lifecycle of seals by taking control of one of our interactive cameras on the islands and watching the seals live. Then make your very own seal beanie at one of the stages in the lifecycle.
First level:Seal craft - Experiences & Outcomes 1st Level
Second level:Seal craft - Experiences & Outcomes 2nd Level
Water water everywhere - Water Cycle
First Level: Follow Wally the water drop on his adventure around the water cycle and find out what states he gets himself into.
Water water everywhere - Expereinces & Outcomes 1st Level
Second Level: Learn about the water cycle and mans impact on it by taking part in hands on experiments to recreate the melting of the ice caps and the cleaning up of an oil spill.
Water water everywhere - Experiences & Outcomes 2nd Level
Seabird Survival – Food chains and webs
Become a marine animal and become part of the marine food web but be careful not to be eaten. Work in groups to create your own 3D marine ecosystem whilst thinking about what impact man can have on the wildlife around the Seabird Centre.
Seabird survival - Experiences & Outcomes
Using the Discovery Centre and digital cameras, gather evidence about the seabirds and their habitats, and prepare for a competitive interactive quiz. Become rock detectives using rock kits and magnifying glasses to discover what the bass rock is, how it came into being and why the gannets like it so much.
Birds rock - Experiences & Outcomes
I Gannet Believe It! – Food chains & webs and adaptation
Learn about conservation and the importance of responsible citizenship in caring for our natural world. Take part in the adaptation game and act out gannet behaviours using puppets. Explore the centre on the discovery hunt, and take part in our interactive quiz.
I Gannet Believe It! - Experiences & Outcomes
CSI Seabird – Wildlife crime (Available after Easter 2010)
A crime has been committed – or has it? Take on the role of detective for the day and investigate the scene of a wildlife crime by undertaking a series of forensic experiments to try and identify the culprit.
CSI Seabird - Experiences & Outcomes
2010 is International Year of Biodiversity
Learn about the importance of biodiversity: the risks, the balance and the impact of man on it and then test your research skills in an interactive bingo quiz. Take part a debate regarding over-fishing of cod in the local environment – can you come to an agreement?
Biodiversity Bingo - Experiences & Outcomes
Investigate how the Seabird Centre gets its energy from renewable energy sources by examining working models of wind turbines and solar panels. Then take part in a wind turbine challenge to build the best wind turbine from a selection of materials.
