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A quick guide to What's Under Your Feet?
- 7-11s, 11-14s
- Biodiversity
Introduce our What's Under Your Feet campaign with this guide.
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What's Under Your Feet? assembly
The perfect way to start your What's Under Your Feet? campaign. Use this assembly to introduce the activity - students will learn about species of birds in the UK are in decline and why this is happening.
You then discuss how they can help by taking part in What's Under Your Feet?, a hands-on citizen science study where they will dig up soil squares and look for one of the birds most important food sources - invertebrates.
This PPT is editable and contains teachers’ notes.
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- Age groups: 7-11s, 11-14s
- Subjects: Science
- Topics: Biodiversity
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