• Tablet or mobile phone
• Sound recorder
• Printer
• White paper
• Markers
• White glue
• Scissors
• Ribbons or string
• Hole punch
• Natural materials (sticks, stones, leafs, pinecones, or acorns)
• Clear plastic container
• Soil
• Paper bag for shredding
• Water
• Scoop
• Food scraps
• Worms

An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Let's explore together an outdoor ecosystem that is near you. It could be your schoolyard, a park nearby, or even a house garden. Take a walk in your chosen environment, try to be extra quiet so you can hear all the sounds of nature. What can you hear? Did you hear a bird, a bee, or maybe the sound of the wind? Whenever you are ready turn on the recorder and try to catch every little sound. As soon as you finish press play to listen to your own nature song!

The next day you can revisit the outdoor environment that you had chosen last time. Now let's use our sense of vision. What you can see around? Are there any plants or trees?  Can you take a picture? Do you know the name of this flower? You can use the app PlantNet in order to identify the plant life around you. The teacher can help you download the app. You can also create your own album online! Are you ready to use the scanner?

An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts.

Can you make a nature journal about the ecosystem which is inspired by the environment that you had observed the previous days? What living and what non-living organisms did you record or took pictures of? You can use markers and paper so you can draw, write or stick pictures of all the things that you had noticed.

You can also print relevant pictures online!

Your nature journal can have a section about all the living organisms and another section about the non-living organisms. Are you ready to create?

 The picture was taken by makingtimeformommy.com

A food chain in ecology is the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.

A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals. Example of a food chain: Nectar (flowers) - butterflies - small birds - foxes.

You can make your own food chain by using pictures or paper, markers, scissors, and string. What kind of food chain you can think of?

   Food chain by Ashleigh'seducationjourney.com

Now you are ready to build your own ecosystem. What could it be? A butterfly habitat, a snail house, or a worm farm?

For the worm farm, you will need to gather some materials like soil, a clear plastic container, shredded paper, water, a scoop, grass, sticks, food scraps, and of course worms.

There is a video below that can help you build the worms' ecosystem.

 Worm farm by abirdandabean.com