Two environmental and arts based workshops were designed to help the children appreciate the interdependence of plants and animals, their life cycles and food chains. The workshops involved the children seeing ponds, streams and formal water features on the campus, and observing where the wildlife lived in relation to the water, either in it, alongside it or on top of it! Plant and animal physiological adaptations to water were explored in the classroom, and students modelled dragonflies and irises which were then placed in the landscape both to demonstrate ecological niches and as an arts installation.

Janet Dukes School aims to use its grounds as a learning resource for the curriculum; this includes the redesign of an existing pond to increase biodiversity and opportunities for learning. Lois Crisp, a Lecturer in Countryside Skills and CADE project team member, said of the day "it was wonderful to see the pupils discover the wildlife, and learn about the different stages of insect and amphibian lifecycles right where they occur".

Contextual learning in wildlife habitats can help pupils experience existing environmental factors needed to support wildlife, i.e. air and water quality and factors such as temperature. Supporting this learning activity with classroom based art and design activities, reinforces learning through making and doing. By placing artworks outside in the landscape conceptual thinking developed in the classroom is literally transferred back to the outside environment, enriching the pupils learning experience and understanding of particular places.