3 – Bristol Zoo and its Historic Landscape
Aim – to produce lesson plans that are;
- cross curricular
- developing literacy skills at all levels
- using the zoo as a resource
- tailored to each year group
Possible activities - Based on Bristol Zoo
- Research favourite tree (additional link)
- Write/ tell a tree’s life story (from tree’s perspective)
- Changing role of the zoo through time
changing attitudes towards the zoo
changing animals' environment
- Changing patronage of the zoo through time
- Forecast for the future
How will the zoo have changed over the next 100 years?
Pictures of specific areas, maps, written/ spoken descriptions.
- Persuasive speech to preserve/change aspects of the zoo/animal rights and conditions
- Imaginative writing - time travel
a) Patrons Brunel, Wills, Frys travel to the present
b) Pupils travel back to Victorian zoo or the pre zoo landscape (Limekiln)
- Compare Monkey Temple to Gorilla Island
The Jungle Book symolises old style zoo in the context of Darwinism, man's supremacy
- Write your own Just So story
- Zoo poetry
- Past images of the zoo
- Design adverts for original zoological gardens - consider target audience - compare with modern advert
- Interviewing and collecting oral testimonies about the zoo in the past
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