Outdoors:
Nature
Have a look at the following links for more ideas and to explore nature digitally!
Natural History Museum - How to Make a Bird Feeder
Perhaps making a bird feeder is something you could share with younger members of your family. The following video describes how and this could be a nice video link to share with them:
A celebration of woodland - visit woods and dementia adventure
More information around gardening and dementia:
Outdoors:
Flowers and plants
When exploring green spaces or flower pressing, you might not know the names of the plants you have found. If this is the case, there are a variety of ways that can help with plant identification.
Smartphone Apps to identify plants
You can use a smartphone with a camera to identify plants. Just take a picture and the app will tell you the name of the plant. We have used ‘iplant’ on the iPhone and have found it really helpful. Visit this article for a list of apps that can be downloaded: https://fixthephoto.com/shazam-for-plants-app.html
A-Z of British trees from the Woodland Trust
‘Our A-Z guide to British trees from native species to naturalised and widely planted non-natives. Trees which colonised the land after the last ice age and before the UK was disconnected from mainland Europe are classed as native. Trees that have been brought to the UK by humans are known as non-native.’
7000+ Plant Pages
To research further into plants, flowers and their properties there’s an online database of over 7000 plants. Click here to find out more.
Outdoors:
The planet
How many planets are in the solar system? How did it form in the Milky Way galaxy? Learn facts about the solar system’s genesis, plus its planets, moons, and asteroids from National Geographic.
Want to learn more about Science?
TED Talks are brilliant short talks in the form of videos on world issues. You can search by topic or keyword - if you click the link you’ll find 100’s of talks around science.
