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Tracks and Traps

Let your students be wildlife detectives as they investigate the evidence left behind by the birds and mammals that have made their habitats within our parks. 

Students will explore our parks looking for evidence of wildlife such as droppings, footprints, nests, trails, furs, feathers, nibbled nuts. Students will get to dissect an owl pellet and/or otter spraint (depending on availability) and use microscopes to identify the contents. They will also get to look closely at different skeletons, skulls and taxidermy animals to discuss variation between species and adaptation through natural selection. Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4.

National Curriculum links

Key Stage 3 - The variation between species and between individuals of the same species means some organisms compete more successfully, which can drive natural selection. Changes in the environment may leave individuals within a species, and some entire species, less well adapted to compete successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction.

Key Stage 4 - The characteristics of a living organism are influenced by its genome and its interaction with the environment. The importance of biodiversity and how organisms are interdependent and are adapted to their environment.

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