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Active World ExplorersThe Ultimate Family Adventure

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, smells & odours, sounds

• domesticated vs. wild animals

• animal habitats, behaviour, habits

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Donkey Sanctuary, Nerja, Spain

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

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, diving

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Elafonissi, Crete, Greece

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

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 & ashes • water & evaporation

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Miravalles Crater, Costa Rica

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