How to notice and extend educational values of family trips and school outings. Links to your National Curricula and tips on home education for home schooling parents and teachers. Pictures of the tiger and the caterpillar in front slide courtesy of anankkml1 and gualberto 107 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

1. TRAVEL & LEARN with Kids’n’Go
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2. Learning occurs no matter where you go.
Find out how easy it is to link your experiences with your National Curricula.
Take your children’s learning further and help them develop their skills, passions and make
friends for life!
Construction & Creativity
Technology & Physical Development
Biology & Ecology
Science & Multisensory Experience

3. Let’s see what is hiding in these fishing nets!
Educational Value:
- fishery as a lifestyle
- fishing nets and fish
processing
- ethics and ecology
- socialising with local
people
-handling animals and
developing sensitivity
- categorising, comparing
and contrasting species
- boats and buoyancy
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Playa Burriana, Nerja, Spain

4. It looks like moss. Or maybe it’s seaweed?
Educational Value:
• bathing pools and how
they are formed
• tides and the moon
• bathing pools as
habitats
• health & safety when
exploring bathing pools
• multisensory
experience, touching
rocks, seaweed, sand &
water games and plays
•
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Playa La Pared, Fuerteventura

5. Sand everywhere! The dunes are the best of all!
Educational Value:
• gross motor skills and
balance
• spacious & bodily
awareness
• dunes and their
formation
• how patterns on sand
are formed
• how to protect dunes
• the function of dunes
in coast protection
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Corralejo, Fuerteventura

6. What a cave! I wonder what hides inside...
Examples:
• exploring and satisfying
child’s curiosity
• multisensory experience:
dark caves, damp and cold
walls, rough stones, rock
layers
• how caves are formed
• what creatures inhabit
caves
• climbing, hopping,
jumping on/off/over
• health & safety while
exploring caves
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Fuerteventura, the Canary Islands

7. Plants and trees produce oxygen...
Educational Value:
• life of green plants:
reproduction, growth, the
role of seeds, leaves, roots
and flowers
• green plants and oxygen
production
• ecological planting
• taking care of plants:
watering, pruning,
replanting, seeding,
harvesting
• medicinal properties of
plants
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Trieste, Italy

8. First it’s sugar cane. Then I put it into this special machine.
The cane gets squashed and we have delicious juice!
Educational Value:
• sugar cane processing
and sugar cane juice
production
• sugar cane and its
nutritional values
• observing changes:
from sugar cane to juice
and cane sugar
• local people’s lifestyles
and occupations
• social interaction &
cultural exchange
• sugar cane juice tasting
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San Izidrio’s Day, Maro, Andalusia, Spain

9. I can make big tsunami waves and a whirlpool too!
Educational Value:
• how waves and
whirlpools are made
• buoyancy, what sinks
and what floats and
why
• reasoning and cause
& effect: what happens
if I stir water
• water, wind & energy
• physical development:
gross motor skills,
pushing, pulling,
turning and twisting
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Science Museum for Children, Lagos, Portugal

10. Horsies like dry bread, carrots, apples and hay. I put some
bread on my open palm. It’s safer this way.
Educational Value:
• appropriate animal
care and handling
• building bonds with
animals
• multisensory
experience: feeling
animals’
fur, manes, shells, body,
claws
temperature, hooves, s
mells & odours, sounds
• domesticated vs. wild
animals
• animal
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Donkey Sanctuary, Nerja, Spain

11. Fiesta de la espuma – the foam party you can’t miss!
Educational Value:
• cultural exchange
• social interaction
• becoming part of the
community by
participating in local
events
• understanding different
lifestyles, attitudes and
choices
• foam and how it is made
• multisensory experience
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Local Religious Feast, Cardon, Fuerteventura

12. This lagoon is a nature reserve and it connects the island to
the mainland.
Educational Value:
• what makes a lagoon
and how it is formed
• tides and the moon
• the nature reserve as
a habitat
• how to protect nature
reserves
• Elafonissi and the
phenomenon of its pink
sand
• swimming, water
games and
plays, snorkelling, divin
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Elafonissi, Crete, Greece

13. Let’s play treasure hunters, or knights and fairies. And let this be our
enchanted forest!
Educational Value:
• gross & fine motor skills:
walking, climbing, jumping,
hopping, balancing, picking
up small objects
• multisensory experience:
smells, colours, sounds of
the woods; picking cones,
sticks, twigs, feathers;
exploring dens, burrows,
caves
• counting treasure
• forest layers
• health & safety: poisonous
mushrooms, nuts, plants
• social interaction
• role plays & play-pretend
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Velo d’Astico, Italy

14. Blobby, sticky and wet in my hand, but on my belly it is getting
dry already!
Educational Value:
• volcanoes - how they
work, volcanic
eruptions, their
consequences, types of
volcanoes
• Costa Rica and its
volcanoes
• multisensory experience:
playing with volcanic
mud, moulding, feeling
mud on skin, how it gets
dry, its texture and
plasticity
• creative play with
volcanic mud
• mixing substances: water
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Miravalles Crater, Costa Rica

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