Crazy About Caves

An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Caves

Students will learn about caves and underground worlds of passages and chambers decorated with fantastic formations, grown over thousands of years. This session captivates the curious as we delve deep underground and begin to explore the Marble Arch Caves. A number of cave challenges await students as they take on the role of a caver and encounter different scenarios on their subterranean journey. Sessions are designed with fun activities and engaging content to complement areas of the primary curriculum and can also be used an introductory or follow-up programme for schools visiting the Marble Arch Caves on field trips.

Programme Title: Crazy about Caves

• Level: KS2 & ROI Equivalent
• Connected themes: The world around us, change over time, movement and energy, place.
• Subject(s): Geography, Biology & History
• Core Theme(s): Cave environments, Geology & Water, Sustainability

Learning Outcomes

● Understand how caves can change slowly over time, through erosion and deposition.
● Use questioning and planning skills to select caving equipment to solve cave related problems.
● Use skills of memory and planning to understand the impact of weather, i.e. rainfall farther up the mountain on the cave water level.
● Use information from the presentation to estimate how the cave and formations might change in the future.

More Information

Marble Arch Caves can travel to schools/education groups within a 1hour driving distance from the Marble Arch Caves Visitor Centre (or 50-mile radius). If your venue is beyond this radius please contact us. Sessions can be delivered in a range of indoor settings including classrooms, halls, conference rooms etc. as long as they have access to a SMARTboard or projector. Elements of our outreach sessions are delivered using PowerPoint presentations as teaching aids. therefore staff will have laptops which we will connect via HDMI cables. We kindly ask that venues have suitable space for our team to move around and interact with students.

We aim to make our outreach sessions as accessible as possible for all students. If you have questions about what our outreach sessions entail, and whether they are suited to your group, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and our staff will be happy to chat through the course programme in more detail. Where possible, we will adapt/tailor sessions to meet your requirements.