Guided by our facilitators, students will have the exciting opportunity to explore the connections between animals, their habitats and their amazing adaptations!

Together, they will explore different animals from around the world, like tall giraffes adapted to live in Africa, and be set up to continue this exploration for the rest of their visit at the Zoo!

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Learning Outcomes:

Year 0 - 8
Students will explore some habitats within the Zoo with a facilitator and explore a range of engaging animal artefacts.

  • Give examples of structural, behavioural and physiological animal adaptations (appropriate to level)
  • Make links between an animal’s adaptation and its ability to thrive in a particular habitat
  • Recognise how changes in a habitat can affect the animal’s ability to thrive and the role of conservation

Year 9 - 13
Students, with a facilitator, will either explore some habitats within the Zoo or interact with artefacts in the classroom.

Year 9-10

  • Give examples of structural, behavioural and physiological animal adaptations
  • Make links between an animal’s adaptation and its ability to thrive in its ecological niche.
  • Recognise and explain how changes in a habitat can affect the animal’s ability to thrive.

Year 11-12

  • Identify the animal adaptations related to nutrition in mammalian herbivores and carnivores.
  • Understand how animal adaptations provide advantages in relation to an animal’s ecological niche.
  • Compliments Biology 90929 (1.5) – demonstrate biological ideas relating to a mammal(s) as a consumer(s)
  • Compliments Biology 91155 (2.3) – demonstrate understanding of adaptation of plants and animals to their way of life

Year 13

  • Understand how animal adaptations provide advantages in relation to an animal’s ecological niche
  • Understand the behavioural strategies of animals for survival and reproduction in their environment
  • Compliments Biology 91603 (3.3) – demonstrate understanding of responses in plants and animals to their external environment

Science – Living World:

Evolution L1-2: Recognise that there are lots of different living things in the world and that they can be grouped in different ways. 
Evolution L3: Begin to group plants, animals and other living things into science based classifications.
Life Processes L1-2: Recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive.
Life Processes L3: Recognise that there are life processes common to all living things and that these occur in different ways.

Science - Nature of Science:

Understanding about Science, Investigating in Science, Communicating in Science.

Year 9 & 10

Science – Living World:

Life Processes: identify the key structural features and functions involved in the life processes of plants and animals

Ecology: investigate the interdependence of living things (including humans) in an ecosystem

Nature of Science: understanding about science

Year 11

Science – Living World

Life Processes: relate key structural features and functions to the life processes of plants, animals and microorganisms and investigate environmental factors that affect these processes

Biology 90929 (1.5) – demonstrate biological ideas relating to a mammal(s) as a consumer(s)

Year 12

Life Processes: explore diverse ways in which animals and plants carry out life processes

Biology 91155 (2.3) – demonstrate understanding of adaptation of plants and animals to their way of life

Year 13

Life processes: understand the relationship between organisms and their environment

Biology 91603 (3.3) – demonstrate understanding of responses in plants and animals to their external environment

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