On May 1st, Room 1 went to visit the Re-Discovery Centre in Ballymun.
We were learning about Biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variety of living things in a given place—whether a small stream, an extensive desert, all the forests in the world, the oceans, or the entire planet—is called its biodiversity, which is short for biological diversity.
We learned about Food Webs and Food Chains, about how plants and animals need each other to survive and how creatures in the wild can be connected.
We also learned about camoflage and how it is important for both predators for hunting and for animals who use it as protection. We actively learned about this for one of our activities in the centre's garden. In teams, we had to hunt for pipe-cleaners, we found that the colourful pipe-cleaners were easy to find, but we had to look a little closer for the green ones around the garden.
We had a great time exploring the biodiversity of a small pond too! We had to use fishing nets, magnifying glasses, spoons, glass jars and information cards to gather as much information we could about the life we found in the pond.
It was so fun finding small fish and pond snails and trying to collect them to study them before returning them to their habitat.
Thanks to the Re-Discovery Centre for inviting us, we learned so much about Biodiversity and we are now more aware of the special role plants, animals and humans play in our environment!
We were learning about Biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variety of living things in a given place—whether a small stream, an extensive desert, all the forests in the world, the oceans, or the entire planet—is called its biodiversity, which is short for biological diversity.
We learned about Food Webs and Food Chains, about how plants and animals need each other to survive and how creatures in the wild can be connected.
We also learned about camoflage and how it is important for both predators for hunting and for animals who use it as protection. We actively learned about this for one of our activities in the centre's garden. In teams, we had to hunt for pipe-cleaners, we found that the colourful pipe-cleaners were easy to find, but we had to look a little closer for the green ones around the garden.
We had a great time exploring the biodiversity of a small pond too! We had to use fishing nets, magnifying glasses, spoons, glass jars and information cards to gather as much information we could about the life we found in the pond.
It was so fun finding small fish and pond snails and trying to collect them to study them before returning them to their habitat.
Thanks to the Re-Discovery Centre for inviting us, we learned so much about Biodiversity and we are now more aware of the special role plants, animals and humans play in our environment!
