Welcome and Introduction
This website is a free place for everyone to discover the natural world — children, students, parents, teachers, and anyone at all who is curious about ecology, nature, and science. Explore it however you like; teachers and parents can also turn on optional teaching resources mapped to the curriculum.
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
Creatures
A complete directory of the animals and other creatures covered across the site.
Plants
Explore the trees, flowers, and other plants covered across the site, each with its own data card.
Food Web
See how energy flows through nature. Opens the interactive Food Web Explorer on a random creature—click any creature to follow the web.
Habitats
Explore the different homes where animals and plants live, from local woodlands to the deep ocean. Search and filter across all sub-habitats.
Nature Calendar
Discover what to look for in nature through the year—what is appearing, flowering, and on the move, month by month.
Guides & Links
How-to guides for using the site, the teaching principles behind it, and links to other useful ecology resources.
📚 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
Foundational skills and knowledge preparing students for the upcoming Natural History GCSE.
Biomimicry
Discover how nature solved a problem first, and the amazing human inventions inspired by it.
✂️ Activities & Resources
Games
Fun drag-and-drop labeling games for online learning or printable worksheets.
Handouts
Printable comparison cards and life cycle sheets to bring lessons to life.
Places to Visit
Discover nature reserves, parks, and wild places to explore across the country.
Stories
Tales and adventures from the natural world to read and enjoy.
But Why?
Short, curious conversations about nature—revealed one question at a time.
Media Library
A curated collection of images and live nature streams to enrich lessons.
Dictionary
A glossary of key scientific and ecological terms.
Decode a Scientific Name
Unlock the hidden meanings inside scientific names—the natural history packed into every creature and plant's two-part name.
Teaching Support
How these resources map to the curriculum, and the guides and links to help you teach with them.
Full Resource Index
Searchable index of all individual resources mapped to the curriculum.
Rights
All text is free to copy and use as you wish. The images are either 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; or they are AI created images by me for this website, so please reference this website. 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