Hams Hall Pond

Pupil

This activity is based on a real pond in Lea Marston in Warwickshire.  You can play a life cycles game, learn about food chains, read about pond creatures or watch virtual pond videos.

Educational Support Notes

The aim of Hams Hall pond is to stimulate pupils interest in the different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment.  For this reason, the Virtual Pond is a good place to start.   As pupils watch videos of the Virtual Pond, they can read interesting facts about its inhabitants.   They are encouraged to learn more by visiting the Pond Library and in certain places, links take pupils to other relevant web sites.

In the Pond Library, pupils can search for creatures by their initial letter.  More able pupils can discover which classification group creatures belong to.  They are also encouraged to discover other pond creatures that have not been included in the pond library.

Hams Hall Pond has two activities which can be printed out for display or assessment purposes.  These are Food Chains and Life Cycles.  Food chains is a topic more relevant to KS2 pupils, but KS1 pupils will certainly be able to understand and complete task one of the activity.  Here, the pupil is asked to watch a food chain being created before completing a simple food chain of their own.  In the Life Cycles activity, pupils watch as the life cycles of the frog and the butterfly appear on screen.  Pupils are then asked to put the stages of each life cycle into the correct order.