Peacock butterfly, poppy, lavender, buttercup, corncockle, bees, kingfisher with fish, river, and robin perched on a moss covered log and oak tree in typical English countryside settings.

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.

Curriculum Resources

Teaching resources are structured to match the UK National Curriculum Key Stages 1 & 2.

  • Science — Years 1–6, Key Stages 1 & 2
  • Geography — Key Stages 1 & 2
  • Handouts — Printable classroom sheets comparing species and illustrating life cycles
  • Interactive Activities — Activities for use online or printing as worksheets for students to label
  • Media Library — Images and live streams to enrich lessons
  • Reference — Dictionary and resource index for quick lookups
  • Teaching Resources — Teaching principles and links to useful external ecology websites

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.

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