Location – DERBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Duration: 120 minutes

Booking and Prices: £6.50 + VAT per pupil. This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum). 

Key Stage: Key Stage 2

TO BOOK: Fill Out Our Booking Form or email us at learn@derbymuseums.org.

Session Description: One of the great ongoing scientific challenges is the classification – and understanding – of living things. Two biologists and a zoologist have developed this session to help pupils apply some of the methods used to group and categorise animals, and look for the evidence of animal lifestyles and life cycles. Food chains, predators and prey – and all that! Within the session, students will make a  dragonfly that they can take home!

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National Curriculum Links Include:

• Science – Living things and their habitats, and Evolution and inheritance. “Pupils should be taught to describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based upon similarities and differences (and) give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics”. “Pupils might work scientifically by using classification systems and keys…to research unfamiliar animals and plants from a broad range of…habitats and decide where they belong in the classification system.”