Turtle Life Cycle
Explore the life cycles of a variety of species groups, from plants and mammals to amphibians and reptiles, and investigate their similarities and differences. After learning more about the incredible life cycle of the green turtle, students play a turtle life cycle board game to see if they can survive from an egg to an adult turtle.
Endangered Animal Easter Eggs
Get crafty this Easter with our hands-on Endangered Animal Easter Egg activity. Using ARKive’s vast treasury of images and videos, students research their favourite endangered species and identify key features and characteristics, then decorate an egg using the images as inspiration.
Web of Wildlife
Do you know what links a lion, an orca and a barn owl? Test your knowledge with ARKive’s Web of Wildlife and discover what eats what in the natural world. Explore food chains and feeding relationships in a variety of habitats, from British woodlands to the African savannah.
Species Discovery
Explore some of the world’s newly discovered species and introduce students to the concepts of classification, using keys, variation and biodiversity. Challenge students’ understanding of classification with two newly discovered species classification key activities.
Animals over Winter
Students explore the different survival strategies animals in temperate regions employ in order to survive through the winter and compare these strategies to adaptations exhibited by animals in the Polar Regions.
ARKive School Museum
Following an exploration of endangered species and conservation issues, students develop their understanding of key biological concepts by designing and creating an interactive exhibit for an ARKive School Museum.
Temperate rainforest in the
Pacific Northwest
Students investigate ecosystems and understand that they include living and non-living things. They develop basic food chains identifying producers and consumers. They understand that ecosystems can change through both natural causes and human activities.
Species Symmetry
Develop students' understanding of reflective symmetry while they practice their drawing skills to complete the reflections of some amazing animals. Students must reflect the animal shapes along a mirror line, using the grid lines provided. Tie in spooky symmetry and seasonal symmetry to key calendar events, or use year-round for some symmetrical fun!
What is an Endangered Species?
This activity challenges students to think about what it means to be an endangered species and what causes a species to become endangered.
Sizing Up Species
Combining skills in mathematics and art, students will learn about species heights and lengths while practicing estimation, measurement and comparison skills.
Seasons in the Woods
In this activity students explore the concepts of migration, hibernation and adaptation to the cold as mechanisms to survive the winter.
Butterflies and Blooms
This activity challenges students to think about the relationship between summer flowering plants and the butterflies that depend on them.
Endangered Species
Bingo
Introduce students to the concept of endangered species through a fun game of Endangered Species Bingo.
Marvellous Mini-beasts –
Design a Species
By creating and designing a new species of mini-beast, students learn how different species of invertebrate are adapted to survive in particular habitats.
Dinner at the Reef
Quick Start GuideThrough this fun and interactive game explore food chains in a marine environment, predator-prey relationships and the fine balance of an ecosystem.
Plants
Students will learn about the different parts of the plant and what each part does, as well as about seeds and their different dispersal methods. They will learn what a plant needs in order to grow, and how to test the effects of food, light and warmth on plant growth.
Adaptation – Design a Species
By creating and designing a new species, students learn how animals are adapted to survive in particular habitats.
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