This worksheet uses a variety of activities to get Key Stage 3 students thinking about ecosystems and their components. It can be easily edited to cover particular small-scale ecosystems that you may have chosen to study with your students.

A mind movie story adapted from an article about Juliane Koepecke, whose plane crashed into the Peruvian rainforest. This resource provides Key Stage 3 students with an excellent, engaging introduction to rainforests. It encourages them to write their own continuation of the story in which they use their senses and geographical imaginations to describe their surroundings. Particularly good when used with rainforest sound effects as students write!