FRIDAY 22ND JUNE 2018 CENTRAL PARK AND HARTLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL UNTIED TOGETHER TO EMBARK ON A WONDERFUL TRIP TO KEW GARDENS.

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2 FRIDAY 22ND JUNE 2018 CENTRAL PARK AND HARTLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL UNTIED TOGETHER TO EMBARK ON A WONDERFUL TRIP TO KEW GARDENS. Kew Gardens provide a perfect setting for an outdoor classroom. The historic buildings, exceptional plant collections, glorious grounds and vital scientific research provide a context for all stages and types of learning. Kew Gardens is a place where inspirational landscapes and cutting-edge scientific research will encourage scientific inquiry and inspire curiosity and fascination about the world, plants and its people for today and the future.

3 SUPER SPINES AND CLIMBING VINES: PLANTS OF THE RAINFOREST AND DESERT Students gained an impressive experience exploring the sights and smells of the amazing variety of rainforest and desert plants located in Kew s iconic Princess of Wales Conservatory. Using first hand experience, observations and through asking questions students were able to discover and unlock the mysteries of these wonderfully diverse habitats. LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will be able to: * Understand how climate and other factors influence the distribution of ecosystems. * Define the physical characteristics of a hot desert. * Explain how biotic and abiotic components within an ecosystem, including plants, are interdependent. * Describe the causes of and potential strategies to reduce desertification.

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6 The Hive

7 The Hive The Hive is a unique, multi-sensory experience designed to highlight the extraordinary life of bees. A feat of British engineering, it stands 17 metres tall, set in a wildflower meadow. The Hive is an immersive sound and visual experience. The lights you see and the sounds you hear inside The Hive are triggered by bee activity in a real beehive at Kew. The intensity of the sounds and light change constantly, echoing that of the real beehive. The multi award-winning Hive was inspired by scientific research into the health of honeybees. It is a visual symbol of the pollinators role in feeding the planet and the challenges facing bees today. It is the design of UK based artist Wolfgang Buttress. Originally created for the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo. It s 17 metres tall, constructed from 170,000 aluminium parts, 1,000 LED lights and took four months to reconstruct here at Kew.

8 COLOUR AND SEASONS AT KEW Immerse yourself in a world of colour, as you explore the magnificent plant and tree life of Kew Gardens through the seasons. Dive into a world of spectacular colour at Kew. Go wild with the wild flowers in spring and summer and explore trees and their amazing leaves in autumn and winter. Students develop language and observational skills that help them to describe changes in shape, line and colour associated with the different seasons. LEARNING OUTCOMES Students will be able to: * Develop techniques and language to describe colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space of plant biodiversity in different seasons. * Evaluate and analyse their creative works using language to describe seasons and art, craft and design. * Create a unique piece of artwork based on Kew s diverse plant/ flower life.

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10 Imagine you are stranded in the rainforest, hungry, no shelter and some of your group are ill. Can the plants of the rainforest help you? Take part in this immersive experience, exploring the sights and smells of the rainforest plants located in Kew s historic Palm House. Work scientifically in the rainforest challenge, observing, investigating and analysing rainforest products, discussing the importance of the rainforest in our everyday life and raising questions about the choices we make.

11 LEARNING OUTCOMES Students will be able to: * Identify the location and conditions of the rainforest using appropriate vocabulary. * Explain the importance of rainforests (products, food, medicines and biodiversity) and the need to conserve these. * Give reasons for choices made using evidence. * Living things and their habitats * Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. * Identify and name a variety of living things (plants) in the wider environment. * Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

12 Children were able to take a journey around the globe from the steamy tropical rainforest to the arid deserts and temperate bogs, exploring the physiological adaptations which allow plants to survive in a variety of environments. How are plants adapted to survive in these conditions? Students have the opportunity to answer these questions through inquiry based learning, immersing themselves in the different global biomes situated in the iconic Princess of Wales Conservatory and linking adaptations to the essential life process of photosynthesis. STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO: * Identify several plant adaptations to the environment. * Understand the importance of maintaining biodiversity and the use of gene banks to preserve hereditary material.

13 Sketches, drawings and paintings of the childrens experince at Kew Gardens

14 Created by Susan Reid Art Specialist Central Park and Hartley Primary School