Reading the natural world

Enquire
with Darwin
KS2
Module 2:
Understanding
the Environment
Reading the natural world
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Charles Darwin 1809-1882
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Reading the natural world
Darwin’s sense of place
This website shows a satellite view of the area where Darwin worked. Notice
the number of woodlands there are in this area.
http://www.darwinslandscape.co.uk/theme.asp?navid=60
Magnify the area along the Luxted
Road leading south west from
Downe village to find Down House
– Darwin’s home for 40 years – with
the long line of trees starting at the
meeting of 2 footpaths and ending
in a wider southern section. This is
the site of Darwin’s Sandwalk.
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Reading the natural world
Darwin’s Sandwalk and Thinking path
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Reading the natural world
Darwin’s Sandwalk and Thinking path
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Reading the natural world
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Reading the natural world
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Reading the natural world
The equipment Darwin used to read the
natural world
This website shows the equipment Darwin took with him on the Beagle
voyage. His magnifying lens and notebook are included in the tools he took
on his travels.
http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/darwin.html
Scroll down, click on Tools of the
trade and Go collecting
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Reading the natural world
A page from one of Darwin’s
notebooks
(12) Take Bag of
soil from centre of
woods especially
if date of wood be
known & other odd
places & see what
plants will spring
up which will show
how seeds are
transported, or how
long they remain
dormant, if kinds
come up, not found
in wood.
‘But seeds
continually
dropping in
woods, by
birds.’
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Acknowledgements
This resource has been produced by
The Charles Darwin Trust
©The Charles Darwin Trust 2012
Series editor Dr Susan Johnson
Author Dr Carolyn Boulter
Editor Karen Goldie-Morrison
Design SPY Studio
Photographs taken at Down House are with thanks to
English Heritage which owns and opens the House to
the public.
Thank you to our current funders who are supporting
Darwin Inspired learning and have made Enquire with
Darwin possible: the Evolution Education Trust, the Foyle
Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the JJ
Charitable Trust and the Mark Leonard Trust, The Mercers’
Company, and a number of individual donors.
Picture credits
Slides 1,6,7 Dr Susan Johnson
Slide 2 Darwin Heirlooms Trust, English Heritage
Photo Library
Slide 4, 5 The Charles Darwin Trust
Slide 9 Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics
of Cambridge University Library MS DAR 206.1
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