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One of our young Sumatran
Orangutans born in 2004
KS2 Nutrition & Movement
Information and guidance for teachers
Contents
Learning objectives
Lesson plan
Curriculum links
Suggested activities to link with session
Things to arrange prior to visit
The day of your trip: arriving at the Zoo
Your teaching session
KS2 Nutrition & Movement
Learning objectives
After attending this session, pupils will be able to:
▪ Discuss how nutrition helps animals to move and grow
▪ Understand how muscles, skeletons and teeth are useful to animals
▪ Give examples of different diets, using Zoo examples
• Understand why good nutrition leads to better health
Lesson plan
▪ Introduction
Whole class discussion to introduce the concept of nutrition and eating.
Class will also think about how and why animals eat. Skeletons and
movement will be introduced at this stage also.
▪ Main lesson
Class is divided into a maximum of five groups which rotate around the
following activities (with an adult):
‘Skulls and teeth’, ‘Zoo food and nutrition’, ‘skeletons and movement’,
‘growth’ and ‘bones’. Each activity will revolve around artefacts, many of
which the pupils will be able to handle and talk about with their group.
▪ Plenary
Whole class discussion: Why a good balanced diet is important and how it
helps our animals.
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One of our Discovery Sessions
in action!
Click here to download a Zoo Map
Animals discussed during session
Many different animals may be discussed during this session including
orangutans, birds, snakes, elephants, zebra and lions. See route map below for
ideas.
Curriculum links
Sc2 life processes and living things:
Life processes common to all animals include nutrition, movement and growth
The functions of teeth
The need for food for activity and growth
Humans and other animals have skeletons and muscles to help them move
Using scientific language, describing and communicating ideas
One of our Critically
Endangered Blue-throated
Macaws
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Suggested activities to link with session
Before visit (recommended prior learning - useful but not essential)
Vocabulary – Carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, skeleton, nutrition.
Concepts – Basic understanding of nutrition and how it helps animals to move
and grow. Different animals eat a variety of different foods and can be
herbivores, carnivores or omnivores.
During visit (see map)
Herbivores – By the Main Entrance there are the Asian Elephants. Behind the
Tsavo Restaurant you’ll find the Black Rhinos and zebra. You might want to
head into Fruit Bat Forest and see our 3 species of fruit eating bats and as you
come out you can see the world’s largest rodents – capybara, and the bizarre
tapir.
Carnivores – Lions and tigers can be found near each other by the Ark
Restaurant and cheetahs over the wooden walkway between lions and the Fruit
Bat Forest. For something a little more exotic, why not see our Komodo Dragons
in the Islands in Danger building?
Omnivores – Just past the Tsavo Restaurant you’ll find Monkey Islands – lots of
omnivores in there! We’ve also got Orangutans in the Realm of the Red Ape and
Chimpanzees on Chimp Island (both just behind Flamingo lagoon).
Growth – Look out for baby animals on your visit, check the website for any
baby animal news.
Movement – Look at the different ways animals can move. As you wander
through the Zoo see how many different ways of moving you can spot.
Gaboon Vipers on display at the
Secret World of the Okapi
Nutrition and Movement: Some Exhibits to Visit
Realm of the
Red Ape
Lions
Islands in
Danger
Fruit Bat
Forest
Education
Centre
Spirit of the
Jaguar
Tropical Realm
Giraffes
Elephants
of the Asian
Forest
Tsavo Black Rhino
Reserve
Zebras
Great Grey Owls are one of the largest
owls in the world
After Visit
Habitat restaurant
Our animals come from many different habitats. Encourage your pupils to
create a menu based on one of those habitats. What menu would you get from
a rainforest? Could you design a meal from the sea? How would you make a
desert dessert? Get the class to decide if each menu is healthy.
Create a creature
Get your pupils to choose a habitat from around the world and create a creature
to live there. What would it eat, what kind of teeth would it have, how would it
move around its habitat?
Feeding frenzy
Create a class collage of your visit by drawing or painting the animals your
pupils have seen. Make it especially scary by showing the animal’s teeth and
claws, or the food that they normally eat. You could even create you own class
food chain using the artwork.
A skeleton in the classroom.
Having seen some skulls and bones at the Zoo get your pupils to draw a
human skeleton (life size) to cut out and stick on your classroom wall. They
could each draw a part of it and stick it together. You’ll need a skull, some ribs,
a spine …… (see if they can work out the rest). Give it a name, and then get
the pupils to find out what food he/she needs to keep the bones healthy.
Moving numbers
How many different methods do our animals use get about? Make a list. Can
your pupils think of a zoo animal for each method of moving? Which would be
the fastest or slowest animal? How many legs do they have? How fast (or slow)
can your pupils move?
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Chester Zoo supports Black Rhino
conservation in Kenya
Things to arrange prior to visit
▪ Please check the details on your confirmation letter. If you have any
queries please call us on 01244 650205 / 389444.
▪To arrange a pre-visit to the Zoo, contact us on 01244 650205 / 389444 for
details.
▪ Arrange appropriate number of group leaders and collate contact details.
▪ Assign students to a group leader, ensure students and leaders know the
running plan for the day, have staff contact details and map of the Zoo
(click here).
▪ Ensure group leaders have a plan for the day including: student names,
time and location of teaching session (e.g. a copy of the confirmation letter)
and where to meet, if necessary, after the session and at the end of the
day. Group leaders may also find a Zoo map useful.
Special Educational Needs
We welcome pupils with special needs. Please notify us of their
requirements in advance, so that we can tailor our programmes to your
pupils' needs.
Additionally, please inform us of any wheelchair users in the group or any
specific allergies that we should be aware of.
For more information on disabled access please refer to the Zoo website
at
http://www.chesterzoo.org/Visit/GettingAround/Access%20facilities.a
spx
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Sheba is our oldest Asian Elephant at over
50 years of age!
The day of your trip: arriving at the Zoo
▪ Please help us to make your entrance to the Zoo as smooth as possible
▪ Allow plenty of time to get to and into the Zoo. It can take over 30 minutes
to enter the Zoo and reach the Education Centre, particularly at busy times
of year.
▪ On arrival the group leader only should approach the Main Gate with the
confirmation letter. Students and other staff should remain on the coach.
▪ This provides an ideal opportunity for another member of staff to run
through itinerary for the day with students and helpers, to hand out work
sheets, information, maps, talk times etc.
▪ Once the paperwork has been completed the group leader can collect the
group from the coach to be counted into the Zoo by Gate Staff.
▪ There are toilets at the Main Entrance both inside and outside the Zoo.
Rainy day – indoor enclosures
The Aquarium, Tropical Realm, Fruit Bat Forest, Spirit of the Jaguar,
Islands in Danger, Monkey Islands, Realm of the Red Ape and Butterfly
Journey are all heated, indoor exhibits.
Additionally, Macaws, Chimpanzees, Giraffes, Elephants of the Asian
Forests, Tsavo Black Rhino Reserve, Tsavo Bird Safari and Miniature
Monkeys all have undercover viewing.
See map overleaf for location of exhibits
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Rainy Day Visits
Aquarium
Islands in
Danger
Grow Zone
Cheetah
Fruit Bat
Forest
Realm of the
Red Ape
Tsavo Black
Rhino Reserve
Tropical
Realm
Spirit of the
Jaguar
Chimpanzees
Secret
World of
the Okapi
Butterfly
Journey
Elephants
of the Asian
Forest
Monkey
Islands
Ring-tailed Lemur on Lemur Island
Your teaching session
▪ Sessions are run in 3 classrooms all located in the Education Centre
next to the Spirit of the Jaguar exhibit.
▪ On arrival at the Education Centre please wait outside the
appropriate room (Cook, Columbus or Cousteau), as stated on your
booking confirmation, for an Education Officer to greet you.
Please don’t block doorways to Education classrooms as there may
be classes about to leave.
▪ Each teaching session will last approximately 50 minutes.
There is plenty of open space for lunches outside the Education
Centre. On rainy days there is an indoor picnic area next door to the
Arara Café near the Education Centre.
▪ There are toilets opposite the Spirit of the Jaguar house, just past the
Education Centre.
• Some Discovery Sessions may include a live animal and/or a
selection of bio-artefacts. Please inform us in advance of any
allergies or phobias that may be affected by this. An antibacterial
foam hand-wash will be offered to students at the end of the session.
In order for this to be effective, teachers are asked to ensure that all
students have clean hands on arrival at the Education Centre.
If you are delayed for any reason and may be late for your
teaching session please contact 01244 650205/ 389444. We may
be able to help!
If you have found this information useful or think there is
something that we could add to help your day run smoothly, please
let us know at [email protected]
Enjoy your visit!
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