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Education Officer
Lea Rivers Trust
at Mile End Park
Ecology Pavilion
125 Grove Road
LONDON
E3 5RP
Tel. 020 8981 3836
jayne.barber
@leariverstrust.co.uk

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Sampling for invertebrates

Mile End Ecology Park

Summary of the investigation

Sampling ivertebrates in the three habitsts of freshwater, leaf litter and the canopy can be used to develop the techniques of sampling, as part of the Ecology in the School Grounds unit, and the concepts of habitat, community, population and ecosystem.

Full support is given for data collection in the field and post-visit work at school. Extensive teacher guidance, with PowerPoint presentations, a full sample risk assessment and detailed plan of a sequence of lessons, are also available for download.

Resources for download

You can EITHER download all the teacher resources as a single pdf document and all the student resources as a single pdf document OR download individual resources as editable text documents

Whole investigation

Download all student materials (pdf 265 kb)
Download all teacher support materials (pdf 69 kb)
Download Sense of Place PowerPoint presentation for students (2.3 Mb)
Download scheme of work(203 Kb)

Individual files

(a) Teacher support materials

Lesson outlines (Word 48 kb)
Mile End Ecology Park site background (Word 130 kb)

(b) Pre-fieldwork

1. Sampling questions (Word 70 kb)

(c) Fieldwork

2. Tree beating recording sheet (Word 394 kb)
3. Freshwater recording sheet (Word 79 kb)
4. Leaf litter recording sheet (Word 391 kb)

(d) Post-fieldwork

5. Adaptation questions (Word 86 kb)
6. Evaluation sheet (Word 428 kb)

Looking for a next step?
The Field Studies Council offers a range of freely downloadable resources for teachers and a website aimed at KS4 Science pupils: Urban Ecosystems.

Also available are publications, courses for schools and colleges and courses for adults, families and professionals that relate to the urban environment. Why not find out more about the FSC?

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