Summer Nature Club

Use these unique and creative after school club sessions to give your children the chance to explore nature during the season of summer! These six sessions focus on the key aspects of the natural world during this time of year so that your children may gain a deeper understanding and connection to the nature around them.

Lesson Plans

Exploring soil types needed for growth

In this outdoor session children will prepare for the club by thinking about what summer means to them. They’ll be focusing on wildflowers found in your school grounds and setting up experiments based on this.

Session aim:

To test how different soil types affect the growth of wildflowers.

Creating a feature to benefit nature

Develop children’s understanding of the impact that hot weather has on birds and other creatures using this outdoor session. Your children will work as a team to add a feature for your local birds and investigate the different types of wildlife that are visiting your space.

Session aim:

To make a mini pond or bird bath.

Exploring the sounds of thunderstorms

Engage your children in the more extreme types of summer weather in this session. They’ll get arty using natural resources and collaborate to make a creative soundscape.

Session aim:

To explore the sounds of thunderstorms and the effect on wildlife.

Learning the life cycle of dragonflies

Have your children spend some quiet time in nature observing the flying, crawling and buzzing creatures, focusing on dragonflies in particular. They’ll play games, create models and work on a large-scale to investigate these creatures further.

Session aim:

To learn more about the life cycle of dragonflies.

Looking at the impact of the sun

This session gives your children the opportunity to observe changes they can see in plant life around your outdoor area. They’ll work with a special type of printing technique and play games to learn more about how sunlight affects plant growth.

Session aim:

To use printing techniques to think about the impact of the sun on plants.

Observing photosynthesis of pond plants

During this engaging session, your children will be encouraged to think about the mysterious living processes of the plant world handset up investigations around this. Finally, reflecting on what they’ve learned and enjoyed during this club.

Session aim:

To observe the photosynthesis of a pond plant.

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