Life Processes

Outdoor School Visit Date: February

Location: At your school

Expedition Description: P4 AgraLiving School Visit: Discover How the Sun Powers Life in Bermuda!

Get ready, P4 scientists! Join AgraLiving for a hands-on outdoor adventure where students explore how energy flows through our island ecosystem. Through gardening and soil exploration, pupils discover how the Sun powers all life, how plants make food through photosynthesis and how living things depend on each other to survive. Students take on the role of environmental caretakers, learning how healthy soil supports life and how we can protect our natural world.

Students will:

• Understand that the Sun is the main source of energy for life
• Explore how plants make food through photosynthesis
• Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers
• Discover how soil supports growth and returns nutrients
• Develop an understanding of their role in caring for the environment

Curriculum Link

• 4Bp.03 – Know that plants and animals need energy to grow and live, with plants getting energy from light and animals from eating plants or other animals

A free copy of the Mentor Text is provided at the expedition: Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm

Vocabulary Voyage

The P4 Life Processes thematic unit is built around the mentor text Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm, supporting ELA curriculum-aligned literacy learning alongside an experiential school visit with AgraLiving as part of the Horizons Programme.

The Vocabulary Voyage offers a set of optional resources designed to enrich language learning in an engaging and practical way. Three short, flexible vocabulary activities encourage pupils to develop language through through small-group discussion, collaboration and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, provide structured opportunities for pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts.

These resources ssupport oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension, and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.