Overview: Learn about the marine life around the IOM and how our actions can impact them in positive and negative ways.
Scoillyn Eco/ Eco Schools Link: Marine: understand our impacts on the world’s oceans & how we can make positive differences for our sea.
SDG Link: 14: Life Below Water: Conserve & sustainably use the oceans, sea and marine resources for sustainable development.
UK Curriculum Link: Positive and negative impacts of humans on environments. Grouping and classifying living things.
Indoor Session: Using a water tank and models of marine life we will learn hands on about what lives in Manx waters and how plastics in our oceans can impact them.
We will then learn to identify key features of marine animals by making them out of modelling clay!
Outdoor Session: Come rock pooling with us to discover what lives on our shores.
(Please note that dates and times are limited to tide times)
Pre-Session Pack Includes:
- Video: 'What lives in our rock pools?'
- Activity 1: Fill in the gaps in the ID key
- Activity 2: Marine life riddles
Post-Session Pack Includes:
- Activity 1: Beach litter hunt
- Activity 2: Making sea creature art from litter collected at the beach or from home