Workbooks & Downloads
To ensure your visit here at the Sea Zoo is as educational as possible there are worksheets available for ages 5-12 (KS1, Lower KS2, Upper KS2 and Year 7.) These workbooks are tailored to the curriculum set in 2015. All questions are designed to be answered during your visit, and as a result, answers are found whilst walking around the aquarium.
Please be aware these worksheets will not be available from the aquarium so ensure you have them printed and with you before your visit. Should you wish a copy of our workbooks for your visit please discuss this with a member of staff during the booking process.
These workbooks cover the topics of…
Age 5-7 (Key Stage 1)
- Identify a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
- Identify and name a variety of animals that are carnivores, omnivores and herbivores
- Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals
- Compare differences between living, dead and things that have never lived
- Describe habitats, how animals are adapted to their habitat and how they depend on one another
- Simple food chains- describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals
- Notice how animals have offspring
- Know the basic needs of animals (water, food, air etc)
Age 7-9 (Lower Key Stage 2)
- Identify that some animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement
- Recognise that living organisms can be grouped together
- Know about classification keys
- Identify changes in environments and how this can sometimes pose dangers to living things
- Recognise different types of teeth and their functions
- Construct and interpret a variety of food chains identifying producers, predators and prey
Age 9-11 (Upper Key Stage 2)
- Identify differences in life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds
- Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to similarities
- Give reasons as to why animals have been classified in certain ways
- Identify main parts of the circulatory system and describe functions of heart, blood vessels and blood
- Begin learning about evolution
- Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind but young can vary so are not identical to the parents
- Describe how animals are adapted to suit their environment and how this adaptation may lead to evolution
Age 11-12 (Year 7)
- Identify organisms living in different niches within an ecosystem
- Identify adaptations organisms have for their environment and how this allows multiple species to co-habit with one another without competition
- Identify an organism’s scientific name
- Look at the roles of predator/prey
- Migration
- Conservation of lobsters
- Continuous variation vs Discontinuous variation
- Different types of extinction
- Extreme environments and how animals survive in them
Activity sheets
Click on the links to download fun activity sheets!
Rock Pool Colour And Count Download
Print out and colour in!
Stay Home Save Lives colouring sheet Download
Print out and colour in!
Seamor’s Underwater Challenge English/Cymraeg
Look carefully and find the answers to the quiz around the aquarium!
