Eco Explorers

Printable comparison, life-cycle, and habitat profile handouts designed for classroom use. Each one highlights key differences, stages, or ecosystem features in an engaging, visual format.

Printable Data Cards

Data Card Print Sheets

View and print grid sheets of creature data cards categorized by classification and pack type (Comparison, Specialist, Conservation).

Ready-Made Packs

Open a ready-made collection of resources with a suggested path through them. Open one in your Resource Pack to explore, print, or make it your own.

Browse all Ready-Made Packs

A growing set of ready-made collections, each with a suggested path through the resources.

A ready-made path through Britain's bats — meet them at dusk, discover how they hunt in the dark, follow their year, and find out how to help them. Open it in your Resource Pack to explore, print, or share.

Backgrounds & Cut-Outs

Reusable Backgrounds

Print these A4 background scenes to use as a canvas for the cut-out sheets.

Habitat Creature Cut-Outs

Cut out these creatures and place them into the correct habitat backgrounds to build your own ecosystems.

Species Posters

Bat Life Cycle

Follow a pipistrelle around the year — spring roost, one pup born in early summer, learning to fly, autumn feeding, and winter hibernation.

How Bats Hunt & Eat

Echolocation, the wing that is really a hand, a night-time food chain, and the fact that one tiny pipistrelle can eat up to 3,000 insects a night.

Where Bats Live

The roosts bats sleep in and the habitats they feed over, how you can help, and why roosts are protected by law.

Bees vs. Wasps

Compare the physical differences and behaviours of bees and wasps.

Bees vs. Wasps Nests

Explore the differences between the wax honeycomb of bees and the paper nests of wasps.

Butterflies vs. Moths

Learn how to tell butterflies and moths apart by their wings, antennae, and resting postures.

Butterfly & Moth Life-Cycle

Follow the incredible journey from egg, to caterpillar, to pupa, to adult.

Centipedes vs. Millipedes

Count the legs and discover the different diets of these many-legged invertebrates.

Dragonflies vs. Damselflies

A comparison of these two pond insects, focusing on body shape and wing position.

Frogs and Toads

Compare frog and toad spawn, tadpoles, and the physical features of the adults.

Grasshoppers vs. Crickets

Cover the differences in antennae length, activity time, and how each insect "sings".

Snails vs. Slugs

Highlight the similarities and differences between snails and slugs, and how they both move on slime trails.

Fun with Words

Collective Names

A murmuration of starlings, a parliament of rooks, a smack of jellyfish — the weird and wonderful words for groups of animals, with a group picture and a fun fact for each one.

Habitats Posters

African Savanna

Vast, sweeping plains of tall grasses dotted with isolated trees and shrubs, experiencing dramatic wet and dry seasons.

Arable Field

Large open fields used for growing crops like wheat and barley, providing food for humans and wildlife.

Arctic Ocean Pack Ice

The freezing, ice-choked waters beneath the surface of the Arctic.

Arctic Sea Ice

The frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean, which expands in winter and shrinks in summer.

Arctic Tundra

A vast, flat, treeless region where the subsoil is permanently frozen (permafrost).

Australian Desert Scrub

Dry, hot outback terrain with sparse, tough vegetation and red sandy soil.

Brownfield Site

Abandoned industrial sites where nature has taken back over, creating unique and rare habitats on crushed concrete.

Chalk Downland

Hilly, nutrient-poor grassland found over chalk rock, famous for its incredibly diverse wildflowers and butterflies.

City Park

A managed green space in a town or city, providing a vital oasis for wildlife amongst roads and buildings.

Dead Log

A fallen tree trunk or branch that is slowly rotting away on the woodland floor.

Deep Desert Dunes

Vast oceans of sand where food and water might be days of travel apart.

Deep Sea Abyssal Zone

The pitch-black, freezing depths of the ocean floor, miles below the surface where the pressure is intense enough to crush a submarine.

Desert Burrows

Deep underground tunnels dug into the desert soil where temperatures are cooler.

Estuary

Where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea, creating nutrient-rich mudflats that support thousands of wading birds.

Hedgerow

A line of bushes and trees that acts as a boundary for a field, creating a safe wildlife corridor.

High Alpine Peaks

The rugged, rocky, and steep slopes of mountains above the 'tree line', where the air is thin and the weather is unpredictable.

Hot Desert Sands

Loose sand that gets dangerously hot during the daytime.

Oak Tree

A single large tree that acts as a massive high-rise home for over 500 different species.

Open Tundra Mounds

Slightly raised bumps on the flat tundra that get blown clear of snow by the harsh winds.

Pasture

Fields of grass used for grazing livestock like sheep and cows, often dotted with thistles and cow pats.

Pond

A small body of freshwater that provides a home for a huge variety of life.

Rainforest Canopy

The dense, leafy roof of a tropical rainforest, towering up to 30 metres above the ground. It is bathed in sunlight and heavy rain.

Rainforest Floor

The dark, damp bottom layer of the rainforest where giant tree roots spread out and fallen leaves are quickly recycled.

River

A flowing body of freshwater that journeys from high ground all the way to the sea.

Rock Pool

Small pools of seawater left behind in the rocks on the beach when the tide goes out.

Sandy Beach

A dynamic environment of loose sand shaped by tides and wind, where life must survive constant movement and salt.

Sandy Desert

A hot, dry environment covered in shifting sand dunes with very little water.

Subnivian Snow Caves

Small, hidden caves carved out within deep snow drifts resting on top of the sea ice.

Taiga Forest

The largest land habitat on Earth, made up of endless evergreen coniferous trees stretching across the cold north.

Tropical Coral Reef

Vibrant, bustling underwater cities made entirely of limestone skeletons secreted by tiny coral polyps over thousands of years.

Urban Garden

A man-made habitat full of fences, lawns, and flowerbeds that provides a surprising haven for wildlife in the middle of a city.

Wildflower Meadow

An open, grassy habitat bursting with colourful flowers that relies on traditional farming or grazing to survive.

Woodland

An area of land covered with trees, providing a rich and varied environment for wildlife with multiple layers (canopy to floor).

Fieldwork Templates

Wildlife Field Journal

A printable journal template for students to record their observations, sketches, and notes while exploring nature.

The Square Survey

A structured template for conducting a quadrat survey to estimate plant and slow-moving insect populations.

The Line Walk

A transect survey template to record how species change as you walk across a habitat.

Seasonal Tracker

A log to track how a specific local habitat or tree changes across the four seasons.

Creature Behaviour Log

An ethogram template for observing and categorising the behaviours of a single animal over time.

Deep-Dive Species Profile

A comprehensive template for researching and profiling a single species in detail.

Soundscape Map

A creative listening activity template where students map the natural and man-made sounds around them.