Habitats
Welcome and Introduction
This website provides free learning resources for primary school teachers, parents, and anyone who wants to find material to help teach or learn about ecology and nature.
Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment, while Nature is the living world and the physical surroundings that sustain it.
🌍 Explore Nature
Habitats
Explore the different homes where animals and plants live, from local woodlands to the deep ocean. Search and filter across all sub-habitats.
Creatures Directory
A complete directory of all the animals, plants, and other organisms covered across the site.
Biomimicry
Discover how nature solved a problem first, and the amazing human inventions inspired by it.
But Why?
Short, curious conversations about nature—revealed one question at a time.
📚 Curriculum & Learning
Science Curriculum
Curriculum-mapped topics for Years 1–6, covering biology, seasons, and ecosystems.
Geography Curriculum
Curriculum-mapped topics exploring the physical world, climate, and environments.
Natural History (GCSE Prep)
Foundational skills and knowledge preparing students for the upcoming Natural History GCSE.
Full Resource Index
Searchable index of all individual resources mapped to the curriculum.
✂️ Activities & Resources
Games
Fun drag-and-drop labeling games for online learning or printable worksheets.
Classroom Handouts
Printable comparison cards and life cycle sheets to bring lessons to life.
Media Library
A curated collection of images and live nature streams to enrich lessons.
Dictionary
A glossary of key scientific and ecological terms.
Teaching Support
The content is structured in the same way as the UK National Curriculum and is intended to be used as an additional resource for teachers or parents seeking to find examples from nature and ecology to use in their classes or with their children.
The idea is to bring the curriculum to life with colourful examples and fun facts and activities; to create memorable learning experiences that raise awareness of nature and encourage curiosity and interest in understanding the interplay between ecosystems in which we all live and with which we all interact.
- How to Guide — how to use these resources and what each page contains
- Teaching Principles
- Other useful ecology websites
Rights
All text is free to copy and use as you wish. The images are from Wikimedia Commons, which provides freely usable media files as long as you comply with the licence, which usually is that the creator is credited. All creators are credited automatically on this website, so any images copied from here should already comply with this requirement. You can click on the images in this site to see who created them and read their licence. You can read more about reuse of images on the Wikimedia Commons reuse page