Our Ecosystem Reflection

Dear visitors,

We just learned about ecosystems!
We took some great trips. We went to the London Wetlands Centre. We saw ducks and fish, and we went pond dipping to learn about the microorganisms that live in ponds. We also went to London Zoo. We made pinatas for the gorillas, and watched them eat their food from the pinatas. We went to Kew Gardens and learned about bugs and insects in the forest environment. We went to Hampstead Heath and found out about human impact on the environment.
Our class did ecosystem projects in groups. Each student had a job to research about the ecosystem. The jobs were: zoologist, navigator, meteorologist, and botanist. Our favourtie things that we learned while studying ecosystems are:

• The tundra environment has melting ice due to global warming.
• Prairie dogs that live in the grasslands do back flips to warn each other of danger.
• Grasslands are affected by humans who are cutting the grass and hunting.
• The canopy formed in the rainforest does not let much sunlight down to the ground.
• Rainforests have ten different layers of plant growth.

I hope you like our facts, feel free to write to us with some ecosystem facts you know!

Thanks, Year 4