New bookable workshop sessions
From March you will be able to book individual workshops for your classes. Workshops will be available on wednesdays from March 2012. There will be new sessions being developed over time so keep checking back. If you have any suggestions for workshops then please send me an email
Steve
GCSE Workshops
Select the link below for more information on the session and to book.
Conservation
Cheetah Conservation Case Study / Role Play
Animal Behaviour
A Level Workshops
Classification
Animal Behaviour
Cheetah Conservation Case Study / Role Play
Marwell's Role in Conservation
POST 14 Conservation workshop
To understand the impact of Human activities on biodiversity and how Marwell WIldlife is helping to conserve threatened species. The session also links how food webs can be effected by changes in the environment. A variety of animal objects and live animals may be used in this session.
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Some Specification links are as follows:
OCR:Gateway Science B, B2h Sustainability
OCR Biology Module B2: Understanding Our Environment
AQA Environmental Science :- B1.1 / 1.2 The Management of Wildlife Resources
AQA Biology : B1.4.2 Environmental change
Post 14 Cheetah Conservation Case Study / Role Play
This session uses case studies to establish reasons why species become threatened and the conservation management strategies used to mitigate the threats. .
The students will gain an understanding of some conservation methods, specifically based on the Cheetah. Students will also carry out a role play task taking on the role of different groups in the area.
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Some specification links are as follows:
AQA Environmental Science :- B1.1 / 1.2 The Management of Wildlife Resources
POST 14 Animal behaviour workshop
This session has been amended from on of the conference sessions and includes information on why we monitor animal behaviour. This Marwell education officer led session focuses on reasons why an animal behaviour study might be undertaken, which animals to monitor, and how it could be achieved. The session includes a practical animal behaviour experiment in the classroom, using a live animal.
Students will be able to give examples of the different methods for sampling and recording behavioural data, and give examples of practical uses for this information.
It is intended that students will then carry out their own teacher led behaviour study in the park and use the data they collect back in school to carry out some evaluation work
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Some specification links are as follows:
The session links with How Science Works:- Obtaining evidence, Observation, Making measurements. The session laso links well with GCSE Psychology.
A-level Classification workshop
This session was previously part of the A-Level conferences and is now available as a separate workshop.
This session considers current classification systems and it’s relevance for animal management at Marwell Wildlife. Students have the opportunity to classify live animals during this session.
Students will be able to understand the hierarchy of current classification systems and the difficulties in categorising species. Understand that classification relates to the placing of species within a hierarchical system whereas taxonomy is the science of species identification and their classification.
This session compliments the requirements specified in
- AQA GCE Biology
- OCR GCE Biology
A-Level Animal Behaviour workshop
The animal behaviour workshop is a session led by a Marwell education officer. It briefly looks at why behaviour occurs, innate and acquired behaviours, classical and operant conditioning and includes a video looking at an example of where training is used here at Marwell to assist in animal welfare.
Students will also have a short practical session where students carry out a general behaviour study on a rat. Pupils are then expected to carry out their own comparative behaviour studying the park in the afternoon.
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Some specification links are as follows:
The session links with How Science Works, OCR Biology A2, A Level Psychology.
A-Level Cheetah Conservation Case Study / Role Play
This session uses case studies to establish reasons why species become threatened and the conservation management strategies used to mitigate the threats. .
The students will gain an understanding of some conservation methods, specifically based on the Cheetah. Students will also carry out a role play task taking on the role of different groups in the area.
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A-Level Marwell's Role in Conservation
This session focuses on the rationale behind the conservation of species and the role and methods used by modern zoos with a particular focus on the aims of Marwell Wildlife
The session considers the rationale behind wildlife conservation, Outlines some of the methods used for the conservation of animal species and the reasons behind them. Considers how organizations such as Marwell Wildlife are involved in captive breeding and release programmes, habitat conservation and conservation projects abroad. Helps to understand the importance of international co-operation in effective conservation methods including organizations such as CITES
This session compliments the requirements specified in
- AQA GCE Biology
- OCR GCE Biology
- EDEXEL GCE Biology
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