6th Grade Students Project - ALDEA: Eco-Garden
Learning Objectives:
- Pupils will learn to care for their environment and understand the term "biodiversity"
- Pupils can identify native animal habitat
Why do bugs need hotels?
In natural habitats there are countless nooks and crannies where bugs can take refuge. Cracks in bark, holes in dead wood, piles of fallen leaves, gaps between rocks, hollow plant stems, spaces in dead logs. All of these can provide homes for small critters that need a place to nest or escape predators or bad weather.
We can help provide more homes by creating bug hotels, which are often interesting and attractive creations in their own right. And why not use our organic garden for this?
Let's get to work!!!
What makes a good bug hotel?
The best bug hotels have lots of small spaces in different shapes and sizes and made from different materials. Ideally some should be nice and dry inside, and others a bit dampish.
Bug hotels are generally made from recycled materials, or natural objects, which reduces cost, helps them blend in with their surroundings and is probably more attractive to "the mini-beast guests"
By using some tutorial videos, our pupils (and teachers, of course!) have built this nice BUG HOTEL
Equipment needed:
- Old wooden pallets (or cardboard)
- Twigs, logs with holes drilled in them, bark, bamboo canes, straw, pine cones, leaves...
- Terracotta pots, old roofing slates or tiles
- Chicken wire
- Green roofing material, turf or other solid material to cover the top of the bug hotel
Now our school eco-garden has a comfortable hotel for "our new guests"!!!
Susanne SZKOLA Maybe you can help Maria.