My environmental area

The task is to design an environmental area that will attract British wildlife. Please try to have at least one endangered species.

You will have two A5 sheets of squared paper.

As described in the lesson, one is for a picture of your area, to give an immediate idea what it looks like – it might have a meadow area, a pond, a logpile.

The other is for a plan of your area, to give details of what plants are there, and what animals they will attract.

The picture (a view from above) does not need any writing except for heading and date .

The plan needs the same shapes as the picture, but no drawing, only writing. The writing is about the plants and animals that live in the garden.

For good marks, you need to show that your plants and animals are interconnected. For example, if you want to encourage barn owls, make sure you give them somewhere to nest and to roost. And then make sure there is suitable food for the animals that the owls will feed on.

Please stick the work (landscape) on two pages in your book.

Food Webs

Here is an empty food web. Copy it or print it out, and fit these organisms into the correct spaces:

Moth caterpillars: Tawny owls: Squirrels: Aphids: Trees (leaves, flowers, fruits, bark): Beetles: Bank voles: Foxes: Sparrows.

It is slightly tricky. If you cannot manage to fit them in, you can rearrange the boxes, or make your own woodland food web based on what we did in the lesson. You may want to illustrate it.

Extension: if the number of foxes goes down, what will be the effect on the tawny owl population, and why?

A complex example.

A simple example.

Read more (also has a 'create a food web' activity).