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Most
of us only experience the sea when we go to the seaside on holiday.
How many of the pupils have spent time exploring a rock pool? For the
sensitive 19th century naturalist P.H Gosse*, a beautiful rock pool
provided a shimmering emblem of restored creation after the second coming
of Jesus Christ! He knew, of course, that rock pools contained food
webs, with their sequence of predators, but it's also clear why the
delicate variety of the pools appealed to him. *Note:
Gosse fought a forlorn battle against Darwin's ideas - see the book
'Father and Son' by Edmund Gosse, Penguin, for an insight into the tensions
between science and certain forms of religious belief in a Victorian
family and its world. |
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Find
out about the different plants and animals that live in the pools around
Britain's coasts. For starting information and images see
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your own rock pool using the information gathered. Use an old shoebox. Add real stones and shell; the fronds of seaweed fashioned from tissue paper; crabs and sea anemones made from card or plasticene. Finally, use glitter and strands of foil to give a sense of that magic which characterises real pools. |
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