Our Coast, Our Sea - Inspire Me

Try out our coastal learning activities. You can download them by clicking on the links to the right. The activities are provided in two formats – pdf and Microsoft Word. Feel free to customise the Word documents to make your own versions of the activities!

Creative Adventures

• Coast Bingo: Can you find something to fill all the boxes in this coastal spotting game?
• Storytelling walk: The coast is rich with wonderful stories – can you find a new take on an old tale, or make up a new story of your own?
• Zoom-in photography challenge: Try our photo trail, or make your own for friends and family!
• Soundscapes: There are lots of weird and wonderful noises along the coast. Capture some and create your own ‘sound postcard’.
• Mapping: Make population, sensory and historical maps of coastal locations and design different maps for different people.

Icons

• Puffins: Go to see puffins, make your own puffin story and help protect this icon of Northumberland by finding out more about bird conservation.
• Castles: Go on a castle trail, imagine a time before and look for modern methods of defence.
• Holy Island: Go on a quest around one of Northumberland’s most famous landmarks.
• Grace Darling: Go on a Grace Darling trail, take a trip out to sea and learn about sea rescue in the past and today.
• Fishing: Look out for traces of the rich history of fishing as you explore the coast.

Big Issues

• Tourism: Weigh up tourism’s impact on the local environment, be a responsible visitor and make your own tourism advertisement.
• Food webs: Find out about marine ecosystems, make your own fishing food web and mobile and learn more about sustainable fishing.
• Dangerous seas: Visit a lifeboat station, compose your own RNLI sea shanty, learn about extreme weather and how to be safe by the sea.
• Climate Change: Find out what climate change has to do with the sea, how it may affect this coastline and what you could do to reduce these effects.