Apologies for the cross-posting
Our Education Team's developing a two-hour workshop for Scottish senior
primary school children (aged 9-12 years) on the subject of glaciation & the
Ice Age.
We are looking for ideas on good demonstrations and class activities that
introduce three areas of this topic:
* How ice and glaciers shape the landscape - their erosive power, the
erosion features they carve out and the depositional features left behind as
they retreat.
* The mega-mammals of the Ice Age, introducing how creatures like
mammoth, woolly rhino, cave bears and sabre-tooth tigers were adapted to
survive. We'd also like to look at the concept of how much food (energy)
they needed to consume to survive. We're quite keen to visually illustrate
the quantity of food they needed to eat a day to live and the amount of
'waste' this generated!
* We're also interested in looking at the first human settlers in
Scotland, Stone Age people who began to colonise this country as the ice
retreated 10,000 years ago and whose hunting may have contributed to the
demise / extinction of these species.
Finally, any good arts and crafts ideas of relevant models kids could build
easily and cheaply but which would be on a BIG scale! We'd like to avoid the
snowflake and icicle models as this could just look too Christmassy!
Any help or useful pointers would be gratefully received.
Thanks so much.
Dee Davison
Education Manager, Our Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AS
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