Teach Middle East Magazine Sep - Dec 2020 Issue 1 Volume 8 | Page 29

a wide range of kit. Download our free lesson plans for curriculum-based study of a range of school grounds habitats from www.learning-rooms. com/lesson-plan/ Get busy blowing bubbles! Take your Edx Education Skeletal Geo Set outdoors, make a range of 3D shapes and use them to investigate what makes the best bubble. Investigate different bubble solution recipes, using a different coloured tray for each recipe. Send your bubbles across your grounds and use chalk to mark the landing spots on the playground. Award a prize for the bubble that floats the longest distance. For the full activity plan, including bubble solution recipes, see the free Bubble Wands activity on the Gratnells Learning Rooms website. ht t ps://lear ning -rooms.com/ed x- education-bubble-wands/ Dinosaur Camouflage! Scatter and hide a full set of these colourful Edx Education Dinosaur Counters in a well-defined, leafy, area of your school grounds, ideally with good ground cover and plant variety. Grab six Gratnells trays in colours to match the dinosaurs, each with a 6-section tray insert, and head out with your students on a dinosaur hunt. Split the students into six teams, each with their own tray. Give them 60 seconds to scour the grounds. Each time they find a dinosaur they should bring it back and deposit it in their team’s tray, using one insert section per colour, before heading off to find another one. When the time is up, each team counts their hoard. Who has found the most? All teams then group their finds by colour, using the matching coloured trays. Which colour was found the most often? Why? Give the teams another 60 seconds to search and add the new dinosaurs to their matching coloured trays. Which dinosaurs were the most difficult to find? Search again until all dinosaurs are found. If you were a dinosaur hiding from predators, what colour would you choose to be? Logistics made easy One of the biggest hurdles to learning outside can be transporting your equipment. Using Gratnells SmartCases, which students easily carry themselves, and the Gratnells Rover Trolley, combined with our iconic Gratnells Trays for larger or heavier equipment, makes getting outdoors hassle free. Author Dr Katherine Forsey. Show us your Outdoor Learning Room We’d love to see what you get up to during International School Grounds month and on Outdoor Classroom Day. Share your pictures with @Gratnells using #OutdoorClassroomDay and #WhatsInMyTray Gratnells Learning Rooms and STEM Consultant. Outdoor Learning Specialist and member of the Institute for Outdoor Learning. E: [email protected] Twitter: @Gratnells #OutdoorClassroomDay #WhatsInMyTray