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Adapting ZSL's Education Programs to Curriculum Changes

Find out how ZSL London Zoo is responding to curriculum changes by adapting its education programs. Explore enclosures, exhibits, free talks, self-guided resources, and booked school sessions that focus on principles of learning excellence, living collections, and conservation. Discover relevant topics such as observing over time, identifying and classifying, fair testing, research, and pattern seeking. Engage with sessions on habitats, food chains, evolution, and inheritance, as well as behavior studies and sustainability. Foster cross-curricular projects, literacy, and numeracy support, and longer-term relationships with ZSL.

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Adapting ZSL's Education Programs to Curriculum Changes

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  1. Zoological Society of London – Responding to curriculum change • Rachel Haydon, Learning Manager • rachel.haydon@zsl.org • @rachelhaydon

  2. What does a school day look like? Enclosures and exhibits Free talks and events Self-guided resources Booked schools sessions

  3. Principles for Excellence in Learning Living Collections Development and delivery approaches Conservation in context Objects from the natural world Excellence and expertise

  4. What’s relevant to ZSL? • Working scientifically: • Observing over time • Identifying and classifying • Fair testing • Research • Pattern seeking • Yr 1 – classifying, ‘scientific language’, seasonal change • Yr 2 – Habitats and micro-habitats, food chains, classifying • Yr 6 – Evolution and Inheritance

  5. New and adapting existing provision… • World Habitats (KS2) – adapting and scaling down KS2 session content for KS1 version and adding self-guided resource to encourage comparison of habitats (Science Yr 2 – Living things and their habitats) • Classifying Minibeasts (KS2) - adapting and scaling down KS2 session content for KS1 version (KS1 Working scientifically – classifying) • Bones and Movement (KS2) – changing session – possibly exploring evolution content with bones (Science Yr 6 – Evolution)

  6. New and adapting existing provision… • Behaviour study (KS3/4) – real data for analysis and evaluation (application of mathematical concepts etc.) (KS3 Working Scientifically) http://www.lpzoo.org/education/initiatives/observe-learn (Apple only) • Sustainability and Climate Changetopics underserved • Literacyand numeracysupport for alltopics • How do we encourage ‘multiple-interventions’? Possibly through ‘observing through time’ or ‘pattern seeking’? (discounted multiple entry tickets?)

  7. Other opportunities… • Computing and Sciencecross curricular project – • Cross-departmental D&L, CP and IoZ • Mission driven from ZSL perspective • Conservation in context • Biodiversity and conservation technology links • Foster longer term relationships

  8. Other opportunities… And some other content to explore: • Poetry CPD for teachers with ZSL poet in Residence (Ahren Warner) KS3KS3: Reading - Range and Content: Literature The range of literature studied should include: - Stories, poetry and drama drawn from different historical times, including contemporary writers - Texts that enable pupils to understand the appeal and importance over time of texts from the English literary heritage. This should include works selected from the following pre-twentieth-century writers: ….William Wordsworth

  9. Thank you! Rachel Haydon, Learning Manager rachel.haydon@zsl.org @zsllondonzoo ZSL London Zoo

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