Ecosytems

Ecosystems

In the past few weeks Alison's kaiawhina we have been working with Talei on ecosystem and Climate change. To build an ecosystem you had to have three crucial things in it the first thing is a consumer e.g snails or fish i used snails but after the first week of having them I let them go the second thing was a decomposer e.g worms I didn't use worms so I used soil but most of the other groups did the third thing is a plant I used a sweet pea another good idea of what to use is a strawberry plant because like a sweet they grow fast.We had to make an ecosystem and here is how you make them.

What you need

.Soil

.Consumer

.Producer seeds

.Pebbles

. Tall wide clear container

.Food for your consumer

.Water

.Drill

. Milk bottle lid

. working gloves

.something from where you found the consumer

How to make it:

Put Holes in the top of your clear container with the drill ( make sure you have parent permission)

Put pebbles at the bottom of your container ( make sure they only do a ground cover)

Put gloves on and fill the container a little less than half way with soil

Put the seeds in the container with space between each seed and compact them down

Place some pebbles around the container edge on top of the soil

Put in something from the consumers natural habitat in the container on top of the soil

Put the milk bottle lid in the Corner of the container and fill it with water

Water the soil so the seeds will grow

Place the consumers in gently

Shut the lid so the consumers can't escape
Make sure you water the ecosystem each day with a bit of water to feed the plant
I hope you follow these instructions and have fun with making your ecosystem.