Downloadable Resource Pack

This resource pack is available for visiting school or community groups.  Please download the sections which are relevant for your purposes. 

For schools there is a safety code and a risk management matrix to assist with the planning of your visit.

Latest Downloadable Resource Packs

• Risk Management Forms
  Risk Management forms and a Safety code for your visit to Willowbank Wildlife Reserve.
• Animal Care Code
  A worksheet for students encouraging them to think about the care of animals and what their needs might be.
• What animals do
  A worksheet designed to get students thinking about the adaptive differences between animals.  For use in the reserve, in the classroom or at home.
• Detective Game Primary School Resource
  This Detective Game is for use when taking your group around Willowbank Wildlife Reserve.  Designed to encourage the students to learn and observe as they travel around the reserve.
• Detective Game Map
  This map of the reserve can be used to plan your visit and should also be used in conjunction with the Detective Game. 
• The different teeth of animals
  A resource designed to help the students think about why animals are different using their teeth to show these differences.  A way to encourage the students to observe the animals at Willowbank and to read the intepretation signs for information.
  Looking at different ways of eating - herbivore, carnivore and omnivore
• Animal Habitat Quiz
  A matching exercise designed to get the students thinking about different habitats and where animals live.
• Make your own bird feeders
  A resource activity sheet for bird feeders.  Make them back at school for your playground or to take home and hang in your favourite tree.  A good exercise for encouraging students to record information from observation.
• Memory scavenger hunt
  A resource for back at school - encourages your students to think and recall about their day at the reserve. 
• Matching - Kiwi resource
  A resource to encourage developing an understanding of various names and terms specifically relating to the endangered Kiwi
• Word Matching resource
  A resource which teaches some of the names and terms relating to native animals and conservation
• Kiwi Breeding Matching Resource
  A matching exercise specifically for use in conjunction with our Behind-the-scences Kiwi Crech tours.  Encourages recall and deeper  thinking about the kiwi breeding program your students have visited.

Previous Downloadable Resource Packs