Visit the WA Museum Boola Bardip with your class and explore how living things adapt to the changing environment.
Adaptations: Birds
This program examines how birds adapt to their environment and the changes that allow different species to thrive and survive.
Students will use scientific tools, Museum specimens and 3D scans to observe and record structural changes in bird skulls, beaks and feathers.
During the facilitated workshop, students will:
- Investigate structural adaptations of birds.
- Describe and record some of these structural features.
- Recognise that structural features are adaptations which help birds to survive in their environment.
- Understand the importance of physical adaptations to an organism’s survival.
Adaptations: Marine Life
Explore the ocean depths and discover creatures and their unusual adaptations and life cycles. Investigate what is causing their environment to change and how this impacts their ability to survive. Snorkeling gear is not required!
During the facilitated workshop, students will:
- Explore unusual life cycles of marine species.
- Identify some adaptations of marine creatures that enable them to survive.
- Investigate the impacts of climate change on marine life.
- Understand that interdependencies and symbiotic relationships exist within these aquatic habitats to help species survive.
- Visit the Leeuwin Journey exhibition in the Wild Life gallery.
Facilitated workshops at Boola Bardip
All facilitated workshops are led by the Museum’s experienced Learning and Engagement team and have been curated using the Museum’s unique resources to provide a deeper learning experience in our specialist subject areas.
Your booking for a facilitated workshop will include all materials and activities for the duration of the program with no prior preparation required.
As part of all facilitated workshop bookings, you are welcome to explore the rest of the Museum free of charge pre or post workshop and do not need to make any additional bookings to do so. WA Museum Boola Bardip is open daily from 9.30am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm.
This program links to numerous strands of the Western Australian Curriculum which are highlighted here.
