The Outdoor Schoolroom: enhance science and literacy

Onsite: £100 (1.5 hour session)

Children have the opportunity to explore a range of herbs and plants in the Museum of English Rural Life’s fabulous garden. Through activities such as story-telling, role-play, and craft and science activities, children will understand the properties and uses of plants in our idyllic garden in urban Reading.

Notes for teachers:

  • Suitable for Key Stage 1
  • Adaptable for Key Stage 2
  • Adaptable for SEN groups
  • Large urban garden with a wide range of plant life to investigate and compare
  • Explore seasonal changes
  • A chance to investigate change and continuity using real objects from the period
  • Develop historical vocabulary

Curriculum links:

Science 

  • Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants 
  • Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants. 
  • Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made 
  • Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials 
  • Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials 

Literacy 

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge 
  • Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions 

Overview:

  • Introduces students to the different common wild and garden plants found in the garden at the museum. 
  • Offers students hands on learning opportunities and different ways of recording their learning (oral work, art work, annotated photography etc) to share with others. 

Bookings and Enquiries

For enquiries, please contact us on merlevents@reading.ac.uk or call us on 0118 378 8660. To book, please use the form below, or feel free to email or call.