From a survey to an experiment
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challenges
Challenge 1: Make a vivarium (EDA)
A vivarium is an enclosure in which animals are contained safely. A vivarium is built
after studying the habitat of the animal it will contain and any other information that is
available aboutChallenge
the animal.
yourself!
Look at the information you have gathered about woodlice from Activities 1.17, 1.18 and
1.9 and use it to design a vivarium.
If your teacher approves, select materials and build your vivarium, making sure that the
woodlice cannot escape. Use books or the internet to find out what woodlice eat and put
some suitable food in the vivarium. Then add the woodlice.
Challenge 2: Make a bird feeder (EDA)
At Rocklands Bird Sanctuary in Wiltshire, Jamaica, there
are bird feeders which attract many different kinds of birds.
Many people visit the sanctuary to observe them.
Find out about bird feeders using the internet and
make one. You may like to make one like those in use at
Rocklands, shown in Figure 1.35.
Challenge 3: Project - can a bird feeder
increase the number of birds in a habitat?
Make a survey of the birds in the area before you set up
the bird feeder and use bird guides to identify them. Set up
your bird feeder and leave it for a while for the birds to get
used to it. As they start to visit it, use bird guides again to
identify them. What do you conclude?
Challenge 4: Taking it further
Spend five minute periods at different times of day
observing the birds outside. Watch and record how
they behave and make notes, drawings or films. Make a
presentation of your discoveries. Have other people who
have set up bird feeders made the same discoveries?
▲ Figure 1.35 There are many
different types of bird feeders
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