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Setting the scene
Imagine you are an explorer trekking through the rainforest, your mission is to find your base camp, its in the middle of the rainforest, its getting dark, raining hard and you need to watch out for leeches!
Hacking through the Jungle
Imagine you have a large machete and you have to hack your way through the thick jungle, it’s very tiring, hot, humid and noisy. Start hacking at the top and work your way down, take a step forward and do it again.
Crossing the raging torrents
Ask why you might not want to go for a swim in the jungle stream? Encourage answers like crocodiles, piranhas, anacondas and electric eels.
Fortunately there are some slippery logs lying across the stream so everyone has to carefully balance across them.
Crawling through the hollow log
Explain that as a scientist you can’t resist looking for creatures that hide in the end of hollow trees, get everyone to crawl along the floor flat on their tummies, but mind the scorpion!
Glooping through the sticky mud
Mud can contain leeches and all sorts of other nasties so you have to walk though it carefully making sure you don’t loose your boots. This is obviously a very noisy activity so children should make lots of squelchy noises.
Canoeing down the rapid
The children work in pairs and canoe safely down the river, introduce rapids waterfall and low hanging branches. (There might also be a crocodile lurking in the shadows so speedy paddling is a useful skill).
Moving like animals
Many animals live in constant fear of being eaten, move through the jungle like an animal.
