Temperate woodland biome pack for KS1 and lower KS2. 42 pages of British forest ecology - layers, food webs, decomposition and a real leaf identification key.

What children will explore

• Six forest layers - from canopy down to the root zone, and which creatures live in each
• Food webs - acorn to wood mouse to stoat to tawny owl, then the full web
• Decomposition - fresh leaf to new plant, and the creatures doing the work
• The Wood Wide Web - how trees talk underground through fungi
• Reading a tree - rings for age and drought years, bark for species, leaves for a proper key
• Winter survival - twelve animals sorted by hibernate, migrate or adapt

Meet the woodland

• English oak - the keystone of the whole wood
• Red fox - the top predator
• Great spotted woodpecker - the carpenter
• Red deer - the gentle giant
• Fly agaric - the secret recycler
• Fern - an ancient woodland dweller
• Stag beetle - the forest floor’s recycler
• Wood anemone - the woodland’s living calendar

What’s inside - 42 pages

• Eight spotlight pages in naturalist watercolour
• Label the six forest layers
• Sort ten trees into deciduous and coniferous
• Build a food chain, then connect a full food web with arrows
• Sequence decomposition from leaf to new growth
• Use a real decision-tree key to identify six British tree leaves
• Read tree rings for age and dry years
• Match bark rubbings to five species
• Sunlight experiment with two pots of cress and a cardboard box
• Put forest succession in order, from bare ground to mature woodland
• Scale comparison from a 20-metre oak to a 7-centimetre beetle
• Counting, word tracing, reading passage with questions, guided writing
• I Spy forest floor, mistake inspector, forest maze, colouring, journal
• Build-a-scene - glue creatures into the correct forest layer
• Outdoor scavenger hunt, certificate and two-page answer key

Why teachers and parents love this pack

• British woodland specifically - English oak, bluebells, tawny owl, stag beetle, not imported species children will never see
• The leaf key is a real decision tree children can take outside and use
• The cress experiment is genuine science with a windowsill and a box
• Tree ring reading, bark detective and succession go further than most habitat packs attempt
• Real ecology throughout - food webs, decomposition, layers and fungal networks
• Two-page answer key covering food chains, comprehension and every sort

Instant PDF download, 42 pages. Both A4 and US Letter. Print as many copies as you need for your class or family.