NatureGrid
Habitats Internet Links
A few websites about Habitats that may be useful: (All links should open in a new window)
- Channel 4’s Science Essentials website
- The Canterbury Nature Explorers website
- ARKive – Images Of Life On Earth
- Facts and pictures of different habitats
- Interactive Game – Design a habitat
- Interactive Game – Place the animals in their correct habitats
- BBC – Where Do They Live? [The site will ask you to allow an ActiveX control, it is OK to click ‘Yes’.]
- Animal Database
- Habitat Game – Learn about which creatures live in which habitat and why through this interactive game.
- Habitats – School habitat site that offers six different habitats including house, farms, ponds, seas, and a hedge!
- The wonderful world of insects – Information on insects, including ants as record breakers.
- The incredible world of mammals
- Insect insights – Fascinating facts and close-up photographs of insect eyes and legs.
- Creepy-crawlies – All about beetles, grasshoppers, ladybirds, moths, butterflies, wasps and many more.
- Woodlands Explorer – This site looks at tree parts and the organisms that live in and around trees.
- Pond Explorer – Go on a virtual Pond Dip!
- Howstuffworks “How Animal Camouflage Works” – Information and photos.
- Ecosystems
- Food Chains
- Land Food Chains