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 One of our young Sumatran Orangutans born in 2004

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. Back to top One of our Discovery Sessions in action!

Back to top One of our Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaws 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

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 Lions Giraffes Islands in Danger Fruit Bat Forest Elephants of the Asian Forest Tropical Realm Spirit of the Jaguar Zebras Tsavo Black Rhino Reserve Education Centre Realm of the Red Ape

Great Grey Owls are one of the largest owls in the world Back to top 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?

Back to top 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 / ▪To arrange a pre-visit to the Zoo, contact us on / 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).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 spx spx

Back to top 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

Rainy Day Visits Cheetah Butterfly Journey Islands in Danger Fruit Bat Forest Monkey Islands Elephants of the Asian Forest Chimpanzees Spirit of the Jaguar Realm of the Red Ape Tsavo Black Rhino Reserve Secret World of the Okapi Tropical Realm Aquarium Grow Zone

Back to top Ring-tailed Lemur on Lemur Island If you are delayed for any reason and may be late for your teaching session please contact / 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 Enjoy your visit! 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.