Animal explorer (ages 4-7)
Inspire your students to understand and learn all about different types of animals.
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Be a minibeast habitat explorer challenge
A real-world challenge inspiring pupils to find out what minibeasts are, where they live, and what they need to survive.
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Food chains
Help your pupils develop their understanding of food chains with these three resources.
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Introducing living things and their habitats
Understand all about living things and their habitats. Explore and identify animals and plants, and classify them as living, dead, never been alive and more.
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Animal explorer interactive (4-7)
An innovative, fun and engaging interactive with images, facts and quizzes about the variety of life in our animal kingdom.
Meet an ecologist video (primary)
Watch Jen, an ecologist, talking about her job and using special equipment to observe and identify minibeasts in a variety of microhabitats.
Exploring habitats video
Discover what a habitat is, learn about living things in a rock pool and sort things into those that are alive, dead and have never been alive. Click 'Watch' to play the video
What is a living thing? animation
In this short animation, Ravi, Kate and Bubbles discuss the needs of living things and identify those living in a cliff-top habitat and the sea. Click 'Watch' to play the video
Building career connections: Ecologist (primary)
A guide for teachers with suggestions for how to build awareness of a career in ecology. Includes ideas for role play and vocabulary development.
Be a minibeast habitat explorer delivery guide
A delivery guide for teachers giving background to the challenge and providing suggestions for how to use the resources.
Be a minibeast habitat explorer self-check
A skills and knowledge self-assessment sheet for pupils to use after they have completed the 'Be a minibeast habitat explorer' challenge.
Minibeast survey activity sheet
Pupils can use this sheet to record the number of minibeasts they find and where they found them, whilst suveying their school grounds.
How to build a minibeast hotel
Simple, clear instructions for how to build a variety of minibeast hotels.
Minibeast ID sheet
Use this ID sheet and key to help pupils identify the minibeasts they find in their school grounds.
Be a minibeast habitat explorer presentation
In this challenge, pupils become ecologists as they find out about minibeast habitats before they conduct a survey in their school grounds.
Food chains activity sheet
Complete these simple food chains by drawing and labelling.
Food chains presentation
Discover how animals get their food from plants and other animals and learn about food chains with this interactive presentation.
What is a habitat? poster
Use this 2-page poster to find out about habitats and to look cosely at animals and plants from different habitats.
Living, dead, never been alive quiz
Use this quiz to explore the differences between things that are living, dead and have never been alive.
Animal fact-file activity
Choose an animal and create your own animal fact file with this activity sheet.
Animal fact-file activity (detailed)
Choose an animal and create your own animal fact file with this activity sheet.
Animal fact-file activity (simple)
Choose an animal and create your own animal fact file with this activity sheet.
Animal explorer fact-file sorting cards
Identify, group and classify animals with these sorting cards.
Animal explorer fact-file sorting cards (detailed)
Identify, group and classify animals with these detailed sorting cards.
Animal explorer fact-file sorting cards (simple)
Identify, group and classify animals with these simple sorting cards.
Food chains poster
Use this 2-page poster to look closely at animals, discuss what they eat and to make food chains.
Living things and their habitats activity sheet
Find out about the key features of different animals and plants and decide what habitat each one lives in, with this activity sheet.
What lives where? presentation
Learn about the animals and plants that live in a woodland habitat, a pond and at the seashore and discover how they are suited to where they live.
Super scientist: Sir David Attenborough
Learn how Sir David went from a naturalist to a broadcaster and campaigner and explore the natural world along the way.
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Super scientist: Mary Anning
Learn about fossils and tongue twisters through the life story of Mary Anning, the fossil hunter!
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