John Muir Award 'EXPLORE' activities at Medina Valley Centre

Through a variety of ‘hands-on’ activities and investigations, children explore some of the habitats in the Centre's Nature Reserve and alongside the Medina estuary. These include:

• bird watching alongside the estuary
• investigating worms in the estuary mud
• mapping habitats using the Centre's nature trail
• listening out for bats on a night hike
• trapping moths for identification
• carrying out OPAL's Biodiversity survey 
• observational drawings of a plant or insect
• scavenger hunts
• 'eco' art using leaves and tree bark