Eden's Amazing Creatures

Introduce your students to Eden’s Amazing creatures with our free activities.

Aimed at KS1 and KS2, these fun activities will help your students can discover the wildlife that can be found in, on and beside rivers and learn about why they are special and, in many cases, in peril.

Cartoon illustration of an otter - its hind legs are lying down and it is standing on its front legs

Illustration by Tim Stead

Ink and coloured illustration of White clawed crayfish.

Before you start, please read the Guide to Eden’s Amazing Creatures. This guide contains everything you need to run the activities, plus lots of background information about species as well as links to films and further information to inspire you and your students.

Eden's Amazing Creatures - guide to the resources

Who Am I?

Pick a card and try to work out which of Eden’s Amazing Creatures you are?
This game encourages students to follow a classification key and ask questions of their classmates to work out which creature they are!

Use the key to Eden's Amazing Creatures with the Who am I? cards for identification and classification.

Fact Files

Beautifully illustrated sheets of the key species found in the Eden catchment.

Each sheet contains scientific names; classification information; diet and food chain facts; life cycle information; fun-facts; ‘at risk/ threat due to’ information.