Outdoor Education Plan
Lesson Focus – Knowledge of how soil and rocks are formed and contribute to the Pizza Oven building
Year Group - Year 1 - 6
Outline
Term - Six
Curriculum Links/
Learning Objectives
Session
Procedures
Introduction
and Activity
Opportunities
Plenary
Before - Check for rubbish, glass, hazards. Check weather forecast
During – Watch that children do not try to cut corners around the school grounds
After – clear everything away and return any natural objects to their original place.
I understand that
rocks are created over
millions of years and
soil is broken rocks
Introduction – remind about the seasons, how do we know it is the summer?
and decomposing leaf
What is soil? What are rocks? Why are there fossils in the rocks? Different areas have
matter.
different soils why is that?
Science
Have a look at the rocks, mineral and fossil collection. Explain the three activities
 Compare and group
particularly the fossil making and mud kitchen.
together different
Main Activity –
kinds of rocks on
1. Create cob with Ms W and put it on the pizza oven (in garden)
the basis of their
2. Work in the mud kitchen experimenting with soil consistencies (behind ODC)
appearance and
3. Work with class teacher making fossils (in outdoor classroom)
simple physical
Each activity will take 25 minutes each.
properties

Describe in simple
Mud Kitchen
terms how fossils
Sink – washing bowls ; Watering Cans; Make the table/chairs out of wood stump
are formed when
Sieve; Pots and pans; Pots with cones, stones, shells….
Children have free time to make mud and experiment with consistency and uses.
things that have
Talk through the ‘Mud Kitchen Rules’.
lived are trapped
within rock
Fossils
 Recognise that soils
Children work with teacher to make fossil plaster casts and look at information about fossils/rocks
are made from
and soil in the books and look at the rock samples.
rocks and organic
matter.
Pizza Oven

Recognise that living
 Look at where the clay has been dug up from - just below the top soil.
things have changed
 Discuss what cob is used for in other countries – houses, walls and ovens.
over time and that
 Explain what the mixture of sand to clay is – 2 parts sand to 1 part clay
fossils provide
 Add water sparingly and when the ball of cob falls and stays together it is ready.
information about
Year 1 – 3
In class children are learning and making dinosaurs. There is a range of masks, puppets and
living things that
labelling activities. Year 3 are doing the Rock test experiment on BP - http://bpes.bp.com/primaryinhabited the Earth
resources/science/ages-7-to-9/materials/rock-properties-online-experiment/
millions of years
ago.
Plenary – how is mud used in other parts of the world?
Evaluation
Date – Week 1.6.2015
Health and
Equipment
Safety
considerations
Wash hands
after
touching
outside
objects and
mud.
Care taken to
not flick
sand, soil or
water.
Compost
Water
Sand
Kitchen
equipment
bowls
Fossils
Plaster
Pots for fossils
Sand and clay
Vocabulary
Soil
Rock
Fossil
Mud
Clay
Sand
Water
Dinosaur