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Harehope Quarry and the surrounding area provide an unique environment for scientific enquiry, geographical investigation, environmental education and education for sustainable development
Natural habitats at Harehope Quarry include ponds, streams, woodland and grassland. The quarry itself is good for the study of rocks, fossils and the special characteristics of limestone. There are opportunities to compare redundant and active limestone quarries, discover the remains of lead mining and learn about upland farming and life in a North Pennines village. Visiting groups will also be able to see how the Harehope Quarry Project is restoring and caring for the environment and working towards a more sustainable way of living.
Early Years
A visit to Harehope Quarry can help to promote the 6 areas of learning and the central theme of any visit will relate to the curriculum area the ‘knowledge and understanding of the world’. Visits by early years groups will focus on an outdoor activity as a stimulus. This may be pond dipping, looking for minibeasts in the woods or discovering rocks and fossils. Further activities will then be available that are a combination of activities planned by adults or resources that encourage children to initiate activities themselves. These activities will relate to the theme of the visit and will take place in the eco-classroom and the outdoor amphitheatre (weather permitting).
Key Stages 1 & 2
The unique environment at Harehope Quarry can be used to:
Study life processes
Explore the variety of life
Look at adaptations
Compare habitats
Study feeding relationships
Group plants and animals and use keys
Look at rocks and soils (our new georium will be available from September 2007)
Study rivers
Study Frosterley and its environment as a contrasting locality
Care for the environment and get involved in a conservation activity
Investigate a more sustainable way of life through our renewable energy system, local food production, community composting scheme and green building techniques
Key Stages 3 & 4
The environment of Harehope Quarry and the surrounding area is ideally suited to delivering aspects of the geography and science curriculum, although there are obvious links to other areas of the curriculum including education for sustainable development and citizenship.
Geographical areas of study include:
Geomorphological processes including rivers, glaciation, and karst scenery as well as looking at hazards such as flooding.
Physical and human factors influencing vegetation
Rural settlement studies including settlement location, function and distribution, goods and services and changing function
Environmental issues and landuse conflicts including the impact of tourism
Resource issues such as the social and economic benefits of quarrying and its environmental impact
Scientific areas of study include:
Protecting the environment and the importance of sustainable development
Food chains, webs and pyramids of numbers and biomass
Habitats – diversity, interdependence and competition
Limestone extraction – costs and benefits
Rocks and fossils of the North Pennines
At AS/A2 Harehope quarry and the surrounding area can be used for both geographical and scientific enquiry-based learning.
Geographical areas of study:
Rivers – processes, landforms, flooding and drainage basin management
Hydrology – comparison of catchments
Glaciation – landforms and human use
Limestone landscapes
Ecosystems – energy flow, succession and soils. Fragile environments
Rural settlement studies including settlement location, function and distribution, goods and services and changing function
Rural landuse and sustainable development
Environmental issues and landuse conflicts, including the impact of tourism and quarrying
Scientific areas of study:
Protecting the environment and the importance of sustainable development.
Food chains, webs and pyramids of numbers and biomass.
Habitats – diversity, interdependence and competition
Fieldwork days can also be delivered for GCSE/AS/A2 geology
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Image: Naturally exposed Frosterley marble, a limestone containing huge quantities of fossilised corals.
The image above shows a section of the naturally exposed (in the stream bed) Frosterley Marble.
One of the unique geological features at Harehope.
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