Sensory Sensation: Exploring Animal Adaptations through Senses in Wyre Forest, Assignments of English Philology

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Cuckoo Raven Bat Tawny Owl Woodpecker Fox Cricket Honeybee SENSORY SENSATION - Worksheet 2 Activity - Scent game You will need: 10 tubs with lids painted black with small holes pierced in the lids and numbered 1 to 10 clearly 10 strong smelling foods (inc 1 inedible) eg: Camembert cheese Tuna Egg mayonaise Mint sauce Tar/bitumen Chocolate sauce Coffee Mushroom soup Lemons Curry Sit the group around in a circle with a piece of paper and a pen each. Write down numbers 1 to 10. Pass the tubs around. Each person has 5 seconds to guess what is in the pot before they pass it on to the person next to them. Once everyone has had chance to smell all 10 and write down their answers the tubs are collected and the answers revealed. Did you know? Best ‘mate’ detection The moth: Imagine being able to sniff your future wife from 6-7 miles away. Well, that’s what a moth does using its feathery antennae. Best air sniffer The snake: We’ve all seen a snake flick out its tongue. They do this because, unlike us, they smell with them. So when a snake starts flicking its tongue rapidly, it’s a sure sign it has smelt something interesting in the air. Best bird sense of smell Albatross: (not in Wyre!) Most birds rely on keen eyesight and have a poor sense of smell. The albatross is one of the exceptions. This great bird spends its time hovering above the ocean on the look out for food. And to help it do this, it has an extra-large nose on top of its beak. This over-sized honk helps the albatross detect food floating on the sea, even when it is dark. Awesome poo shooters The caterpillar: Caterpillars can shoot poo with such power that it can land a metre away. One species, the silver spotted skipper caterpillar (not found in Wyre), can even fire its faeces a colossal 1.5 metres from its nest. In equivalent terms, that would be like us casually firing our poo straight across a tennis court. Apart from being a great party trick, such ballistic poo power comes in handy against predators such as wasps, who use a caterpillar’s faeces to locate their prey. SENSORY SENSATION - Worksheet 3 Activity - Sight game You will need: Print outs of the animal silhouettes on A4 (minimum) Masking tape or drawing pins to fix silhouettes to the trees Find a position in the woods where you can see several tree trunks going into the distance. Group members take it in turn to stand in one position and try to name the animal silhouettes and write down the answers. The one with the most correct answers wins. Did you know? Sharpest eyesight Birds of Prey: The eyesight of birds such as eagles, hawks and buzzards is 3-4 times sharper than ours. Eagles can spot rabbits from several miles away while hawks and buzzards often scan the earth from a height of 3-5,000 metres looking for tasty rodents! And when they spot one, these birds can dive at over 100mph and still keep their target in complete focus. Best bird night vision Owls: Despite their smaller size, owls have eyes almost as big as ours and their huge pupils capture lots of light. In fact, an owl could probably spot a mouse on a football pitch lit by a single candle. Secondly, like other birds, their brains can capture an ‘at a glance’ picture that a human eye would have to scan back and forth to understand. However because their forward-facing eyes are so big, they can’t move them. Which is why, like eagles, they can swivel their heads 270 degrees - allowing them a wide field of vision. Best colour vision Birds can see ultraviolet light. A drab bird to us, may in fact be incredibly radiant to other birds in colours we cannot see. Best motion detectors Insects: Whereas we only have one lens in each of our eyes, an insect can have hundreds. Eyes likes these are known as compound eyes. And instead of seeing one clear image , each eye of the insect sees a little bit of the overall picture. Whilst our eyesight is far superior to that of most insects, compound eyes are incredibly good for detecting movement. With complete 360 degree vision, the merest twitch will be picked up by your common house fly. SENSORY SENSATION - Worksheet 5 Activity - Magic spots You will experience so much more of the forest if you can be quiet and still! Take a mat each to sit on or choose dry weather! Choose a quiet part of the forest – perhaps along a deer or badger track. Choose a “magic spot” along the track so that you are not near enough to anyone else to distract them or be distracted by them. (With older children or adults you can be out of sight of each other). Sit still and in silence for 10 minutes (or less with young children). When the time is up the person at the end of the line should gather up the others. Tell each other: • What you heard • What you saw • How you felt Images of downloadable Spotting Flowers and Spotting animal clues sheets SENSORY SENSATION - Worksheet 6 Activity - Spotter guides You will need: Print outs of Wyre spotter guides as follows: Animal clues Minibeasts Birds Leaves Butterflies Plants Aliens http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/recreation.nsf/LUWebDocsByKey/ EnglandWorcestershireWyreForestAreaWoodlandsWyreForest Print out of “What did you see in the Wyre Forest?” sheet (next page) Take these guides with you when you visit Wyre and see how many things you can find. Children should be encouraged to use all their senses to try and find things. This activity will work best if they are encouraged to be quiet and use their sense of hearing and if they are given a period of time to themselves to stay still and see what comes along. TIP: The “What did you see in the Wyre Forest?” sheet is a good one to use alongside other activities that you might be doing in the forest. Spotting animal clues Hedgehog droppings Rabbit droppings Hazelnut shell opened by Dormouse (toothmarks around hole on shell surface) Fox-chewed bird feathers Hazelnut shell opened by Woodmouse (toothmarks around inside of hole) Pine cones stripped by squirrels Fox droppings Badger footprints Deer footprints Fallow Deer droppings Owl pell ts Snail shells opened bythrushes Love me and leave me - please don’t pick or remove wildlife from the forest when you find me Spotting flowers Wood Cranesbill Bilberry Narrow-leaved He lleborine Wood Anemone Lily of the Valley Bluebells Foxglove Wood Sorrel Wood Spurge Hemp Agrimony Common Spotted O rchid Toothwort Love me and leave m e - please don’t pick or remove wildlife from the forest when you find me What did you see in the Wyre Forest? If you saw it, tick it! Did you see anything else that was interesting? ____________________________ ___________________________________________________________________