Little Bay Explorers: Understanding the world through curiosity and wonder

Early Years Foundation Stage: Understanding the World

MBC dog, Baxter. He wants to take you and your learners on an exploration of local natural environments and blue and green spaces in the Bay. Whilst you enrich and widen children’s vocabulary, you’ll also be fostering positive connections to nature and pride in place. Whilst exploring coastal habitats, you’ll meet animals and local communities, experience local ecology and learn about tidal changes.

Little Bay Explorers Overview

Near and Far, High and Tiny: Looking and Listening in our Bay

Early Years Foundation Stage: Expressive Arts and Design

Why not go on a journey to discover our natural world through the perspectives of others? In this resource you will enable your learners to think in “more-than-human”ways. Delve into art and nature to help make meaningful connections with the world around them.

Allow your learners to discuss and respond to diverse art to inspire their thinking and creativity. Children will make personal connections with their locality whilst engaging in expressive art practice that promotes kinship with their environment.

Near and Far, High and Tiny Overview

A Day at the Beach: Present and Future

Primary Geography

This resource helps you take trips to the beach, exploring the present and imagining the hopeful future. This resource fosters great connections between you, your class and the environment. There are fantastic opportunities for children to ask questions and for classes to learn together. These beach visits help secure the learners’ knowledge of marine ecology whilst encouraging care and responsibility for their local beach.

A Day at the Beach Overview

The King’s Guide to the Sands

Primary History

The sands of Morecambe Bay are rich with stories. The acquisition of landscape literacy, like alphabetic literacy, can nurture students intellectually and imaginatively. As your learners develop their understanding of the King’s Guide’s role, they will recognise local landscapes, historical monarchs, industry and infrastructure.

Your learners will uncover our connection to people and places by viewing, reading and listening to accounts of people from Morecambe Bay through history.

The King’s Guide to the Sands Overview

Rhythms of the Bay: Living Things and Their Habitats

Primary Science

Dive into this resource rooted in the planetary and natural rhythms of Morecambe Bay to explore how the moon affects our tides.

By observing, identifying and naming local flora and fauna and cycles of local habitats, your learners will explore the Bay’s natural classroom!

Rhythms of the Bay Overview

The Birds of Morecambe Bay: Teaching Science Through Art in Year 4

Primary Art

Did you know that Morecambe Bay is one of the top three UK sites for overwintering birds? Its mudflats, salt marshes and sands are internationally important habitats.

This resource focuses on twelve birds and their beaks, feet, habitats, food sources, migration and birdsong. Featuring sound waves, migration and representations of nature, learners will strengthen their emotional connection to local wildlife.

The Birds of Morecambe Bay Overview

Wellbeing and Blue Spaces: Using creative methods to explore connections to blue spaces and build resilience

Key Stage 3: Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Spending time outdoors and near water can help with enhancing wellbeing and resilience. This foundational PSHE series explores the research behind blue spaces ensuring that your learners are in a better position to understand more fully the positive impacts which nature can have on their lives.

Wellbeing and Blue Spaces Overview

Flight Investigations: Curlews vs the Airbus Air380-800

Key Stage 3: Design and Technology

This resource offers a comparison between the Eurasian Curlew, Britain’s highest conservation priority bird species, and the Airbus A380-800, the world’s largest commercial airliner.

Explore biomimicry, the principles of flight and the sustainability of aircraft design, to understand how humans can create solutions that care for our planet.

Flight Investigations Overview

Making Plants Pop: Weaving Local Plant Knowledge into your Teaching

Key Stage 3: Science

Teachers can empower students by informing them of their local environmental heritage and bridging the plant awareness gap. This resource helps us notice the plant life around us, expanding ecological knowledge in our learners. It also brings careers in botany, ecology, and environmental management to the fore.

Making Plants Pop Overview

What have Colonialism and Empire got to do with Sustainability and Development?

Key Stage 3: History

This resource will engage with the contemporary debates in the UK around reparations, loss and damage, repatriation of Indigenous artefacts and apologies for past imperial and colonial actions. By reflecting on the past, we can teach a generation to build meaningful bridges between communities and move forward to face the climate crisis together.

Colonialism and Empire: Sustainability and Development Overview

Energy Generation or Energy Conservation? Which method is the future for Morecambe Bay?

Key Stage 3: Geography

The Morecambe Bay Tidal Barrage is described as a ‘vital step in getting us closer to a greener, safer, fairer future’ but is it the best solution for our community?

Your learners will be challenged to synthesise research on two pathways – the tidal barrage proposal and retro-fitting energy saving solutions. The resource challenges common assumptions through the lens of fairness and equity.

Energy Generation or Energy Conservation Overview

Sustainable Construction and Biomimicry

Further Education: Construction

Biomimicry can be used as a framework for learning and applying construction skills. This interdisciplinary approach ties together local nature with sustainable building practices.

As they study Common Orb Spiders and Reed Warblers, your learners will gain practical skills and foster a sense of place, purpose and pride.

Sustainable Construction and Biomimicry Overview

Understanding the Impact of Food Choices: Investigating Carbon and Water Footprints

Further Education: Agriculture

How can consumers better understand the environmental impact of their food choices?

Scientific knowledge underpins the research learners undertake, enabling them to consider other people, animals and nature when making decisions.

Understanding the Impact of Food Choices Overview

Eco Tourism: A Comparative Study of Local, National and Global Tourist Locations

Further Education: Tourism

This resource takes you to Eden Project Morecambe, Penzance and Bwindi, Uganda.

As you metaphorically fly off to these destinations you will gain insight into how tourism can enhance and damage the locality, both socially and environmentally. Your learners will identify and develop the values they wish to promote and explore how their behaviours impact the environment.

Eco Tourism: A Comparative Study Overview

Flood risk in sports turf: climate change adaptation (measures) and mitigation (action)

Further Education Sports Turf: Level 3

Flooding is impacting college grounds, resulting in sports postponements and cancellations. How can we mitigate this, adapt our grounds and be more prepared?

By creating real-life risk assessments, learners are encouraged to be solution focused when tackling the symptoms of climate change.

Flood Risk in Sports Turf Overview

Special Educational Needs (SEND): adapting the resources for all learners

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Environmental and place-based learning is for everyone and we are committed to ensuring that all learners from around the Bay can access this. Find out more about the importance of inclusion and gain some practical advice about how to adapt your plans to the needs of all students.

Adapting the Resources for all Learners Overview

Grow Up! and Grab It! Resources: Engineering x MBC

Creative problem solving inspired by the nature of the Bay

KS2 Science, Design and Technology

The two activities, Grab It and Grow Up! link the engineering thinking process with exploration and observation of the biodiversity of plants and birds found in the habitats of Morecambe Bay.

Grab It! Engineering challenge is based on solving a problem of reaching to pick something up, taking inspiration from the Bay's birds, to design and create an extendable grabber.

Grow Up! Engineering challenge is based on the need for creative ways to grow more food in a small space. Structures and 3D shapes are tested for stability and strength. Plants are observed as inspiration for designing and creating a vertical growing farm.

Grab It! and Grow Up! Resources Overview