Adaptations to Arid Habitats
Students will learn about how different animals and plants are adapted to surviving in arid habitats. Students will develop practical planning and investigative skills and will practice critically analysing and evaluating evidence from their observations and experiments.
Invasive Species
Students will explore the impacts that invasive species may have on native species and habitats, and will investigate some of the most common methods used to control invasive species. Students will independently research and prepare ‘case studies’ for different invasive species which can be used as a basis for wider classroom discussion and collaboration.
Species Discovery
Explore how scientists discover, classify and name species previously unknown to science. Further students’ knowledge of classification and taxonomy with two classification key activities and develop their independent research skills with a species discovery expedition planning task.
ARKive School Museum
Through an exploration of endangered species and conservation issues, students are transformed into ‘endangered species experts’. Using their knowledge and experience of key biological concepts, students design and create a series of interactive, educational exhibits for an ARKive School Museum.
Opposable Thumbs
Students learn the definition of an opposable thumb, explore the variety of species with this trait and, through a fun, hands-on experiment, examine the tasks primates can accomplish with it.
Human Impacts on the Environment
Students will learn about how humans can have negative impacts on the environment and endangered species. They will be asked to consider how human impacts can be measured, and what can be done to help.
Adaptations for Movement
Students will learn about how different species are adapted to move successfully through different habitat types.
Who Wants to be a Zoologist?
This fun and interactive quiz challenges students to use their knowledge of animal classification and their powers of deduction to identify mystery animals from photos.
An Introduction to
Endangered Species
In this activity, students learn how to define endangered species and explore threatened animals and plants around the world through playing Endangered Species Bingo.
ARKive Geographic - Exploring the
World's Biodiversity
Challenge students to become ‘species experts’ for an endangered species and explore biogeography concepts using species fact cards and maps of the continents.
ARKive on Tour
In this creative writing activity students learn about different habitats, the species that live there and the threats they face through researching and writing their own travel article.
Classification
Students learn about why we classify species and the key characteristics of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects.
Guess Zoo
Guess Zoo is a fun animal guessing game that can be used to introduce or support several lesson themes, for example species diversity, adaptations, habitats and classification.
Biodiversity Hospital
Quick Start GuideWorking in medical teams, students balance competing priorities for the conservation of an endangered species and devise a ‘treatment’ plan.
Adaptation – Design a Species
By researching and designing their own species, students learn how animals are adapted physically and behaviourally to survive in particular habitats.
Sexual selection – The Dating Game
The Dating Game teaches students about sexual selection and the difference between intrasexual and intersexual selection.
Darwin's observations
An introduction to the life and work of Darwin and the observations he made that led to his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Animal classification
Compare the similarities and differences between species to help classify them into different animal groups.
Darwin's finches
Learn more about species variation and the use of identification keys by scientists.
Identification keys – sharks and rays
Use this species identification key to identify some of the world’s most amazing sharks and rays.
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