Botanic Garden and Attenborough Arboretum
Dragon Stories
Maths, English, Science and Geography for year 3/4
The day starts with a taught introduction. The children discover a dragon is planning to visit the Botanic Garden and it needs the children to complete a range of investigations.
Three activities are inside and three outside and everyone rotates around so all activities are completed by the end of the day.
- Exploring using a map. Find six places from a map and look for similarities and differences and think about weather vanes compass points
- Identifying Trees Examine five trees consider their leaves, seeds, trunk and shape and use our special booklet to identify them.
- Dragon Shelters Find sticks, leaves and other natural material to build a shelter for a little dragon.
- Dominoes and Dice Use maths skills to play a dice game and dominoes
- Mirror Patterns Make symmetrical patterns with two mirror lines
- Dragon stories Use puppets to create their own dragon story on a a story strip.
All resources are provided. If there is time the day finishes with by talking about what has been learnt. 
- Availability: All year
- Age group: Years 3/4
- Numbers: Up to two classes per day (70 maximum)
- Duration: A 20 minute taught introduction followed by 25 minutes for each activity area
- Organisation: The children need to be organised in three groups for one class and in five or six small groups for two classes, each accompanied by an adult provided by the school
- Cost: Please visit our programme costs page