Early Stage 1 Follow-up Activities

Emphasis on Living and non-living things

Take another walk around the school grounds with a view to making changes that would attract animals.
Encourage the students to look around their home environment to see what plant life they have growing and to think about other plants that might attract animal life.

Examine a favourite tree at home or school. Does it provide shade? Examine its features. Can you see any animals using it as a habitat?

Construct a simple birdfeeder from a cardboard milk container or other recycled materials, to attract birds to their garden www.canteach.ca/elementary/life.html
Visit the www.floraforfauna.com.au and the ErinEarth website. This may be useful in helping the students think about developing their school garden in order to attract animals.
Follow-up discussion on how plants and animals help one another. A class book might be started to record both reflections and information.

Write a thankyou letter to Sister Carmel thanking her for your visit to ErinEarth.
Mapping activity: Draw a map of all the places you can remember from your visit to ErinEarth.
Writing activity: Write an account of their day at ErinEarth.
There are many drawings, paintings or models that the students could make back at school to show some of their favourite things about the garden.
There may be things on the ErinEarth web site of interest to the children. Eg. Story of how the frogs came to ErinEarth.
Revisit enlarged site map so that students can identify their special places.