Spot and count: a hidden animal adventure
This session has different games and activities that will help learners to discover how animals hide within their environment and explain different forms of camouflage.
This workshop is available to book from March 2025.
Workshop details
This interactive session will explore different animals that live on land and in water. It includes games and activities that will help learners to discover how animals hide within their environment and explain different forms of camouflage. The activities will also promote the use of numbers and counting in a fun and engaging environment.
This exciting and active workshop has lots packed in to keep little learners entertained and involved.
Practical information for your visit
To help your pupils gain the most from their session and ensure safe handling of the collections, it is essential that you have a ratio of at least 1 adult helper to 8 pupils.
Please arrive on time for your show or we may not be able to run it for you. Please share these notes with your adult helpers before your visit. This will help them to support your pupils have a successful and enjoyable day.
Image © Robin Clewley
Curriculum links
Early Years Foundation Stage - this workshop can be adapted for SEND groups, please contact bookings with any requirements
Communication and language development
Pupils should be taught to:
Listen attentively in a range of situations. Give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in other activity.
Follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
Express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners' needs.
Personal, social and emotional development.
Confident to try new activities.
Work as part of a group or class and understand and follow rules.
Play cooperatively, taking turns with others.
Understanding of the world.
Sing songs, make music and dance.
Mathematics
Learn different numbers and for them to replay the numbers back to the educator.
Science
Develop an understanding of methods of scientific enquiry so that pupils learn to use a variety of approaches to answer relevant scientific questions.
Rule of law
Children learn to follow museum’s rules for their own safety and that of other visitors.
Children understand that rules apply to everyone and that all members of the group need to co-operate – for example, in tidying up.
Tolerance and mutual respect
Children are encouraged to respect the feelings and opinions of others as well as the museum and its collections.
Children learn to recognise and respect the diversity of animals.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
Learn about animals on land and in the water.
Use their bodies and voices to demonstrate animal’s movements and sounds.
Spot and count animals in their natural habitats within images.
Skills
To develop observational, speaking and listening and questioning skills.
Sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
Work as a team and share objects with peers
Enjoyment, inspiration and creativity
Pupils and staff will enjoy a focused visit to the museum.
Show interest, excitement and motivation to learn in a museum environment.
Activity, behaviour and progression
Work as part of a group, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children to work together harmoniously.
Be provided with an opportunity to experience new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group.
Inspire the children to get involve with the session in a controlled and fun way