1. A Community Science Project for 5-11 year olds
Garden Watch encourages children to identify wildlife in their communities, understand why its there and get
hands-on to nurture it!
You have all the resources you need – just download it!
What’s in the pack?
Introductory school assembly/class presentation (MS Powerpoint)
Explanatory letters for parents/carers (MS Word)
Promotional flyers (MS Powerpoint)
Printable children’s survey and Garden Watch Activity Book (MS Word & PDF format)
Teacher’s Data Grab framework (MS Excel)
Garden Watch has been developed by Primary Science Teaching Trust College Fellow, Mr Toby Tyler. He shares his passion to engage children with observing the wildlife in their gardens, school grounds and local areas with you through this resource.
‘The best thing is to encourage children to really look at what is living on their doorsteps… literally! Involving families in exploring the wonders of nature can be very powerful, and dovetails into the Science curriculum beautifully.’
Survey 1links, activities
and more!
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2. 10 Steps to Successful Garden Watching
Step 1: Set a date for your first Garden Watch day.
Step 2: Your introductory assembly
Print and give the children the their own Activity booklet.
Step 3: Ask the children, parents and classes to communicate their findings during their survey
Use the flyers to encourage Parents/Carers to share the experience across the community using #Gardenscience on Twitter!
Step 4: The children bring the surveys back to school
Step 5: Capture the data from the children’s surveys
Use the Garden Watch ‘Teachers Data grab framework’ Excel doc to support this process
Step 6: Set a date for your second Garden Watch day, in the following term
Step 7: Send the activity books back home again and encourage the children to get busy!
What will they do, build or make in their gardens to encourage more wildlife?
Step 8: Children to complete survey number 2 on page 7 in the activity books
Step 9: The children bring their Activity Books back to school once again
Step 10: Capture the data from the children’s and compare it to last time
Now make the most of what the children have found!
Making graphs, comparing animal types, changes based on what the children did in their gardens, seasonal variations etc.
Use Twitter and link up with another school and compare data.