Ecologies Junior: Forest – Food Web & Forest Ecology Game
Ecologies Junior: Forest – Food Web & Forest Ecology Game
Build a Forest Food Web Through Matching, Memory, and Play
Ecologies Junior: Forest is a hands-on forest ecology game designed to introduce younger children to food webs, trophic levels, and the relationships between living things.
Designed by a biology teacher, the game includes 64 sturdy tiles featuring 32 matching pairs of forest organisms. Children encounter familiar plants, animals, fungi, and other members of a forest ecosystem while discovering how producers, consumers, scavengers, and decomposers fit together.
The tiles can be used in several ways, allowing the game to grow with the child. Begin with a simple matching or memory game, then introduce trophic levels and food web building as children are ready. Play can be cooperative or competitive, making it easy to adapt for home, homeschool groups, outdoor education, or classroom use.
Beautiful natural-history-inspired artwork gives children plenty to notice along the way, while the game quietly reinforces real ecological relationships. It feels like a game first — but children are also learning how a forest works.
Ways to Play
- Matching: Pair the 32 sets of matching organism tiles
- Memory: Turn the tiles facedown and search for pairs
- Trophic Levels: Sort organisms into producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, scavengers, and decomposers
- Food Web Building: Explore how forest organisms depend on one another
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Cooperative or Competitive Play: Adjust the experience for individual children, families, or groups
Science Concepts Explored
- Forest ecosystems
- Food chains and food webs
- Producers and consumers
- Predators and prey
- Trophic levels
- Scavengers and decomposers
- Ecological interdependence
Product Details
- 64 sturdy tiles
- 32 matching pairs
- Designed by a biology teacher
- Multiple ways to play
- Ages 4+ years
- 1–4 players
- Playing time: 15–30 minutes
- Simplified introduction to concepts from the original Ecologies game
- Suitable for homeschool science, classrooms, nature study, and family play
- Made with FSC Recycled-certified paper (FSC C187954)
- Printed with soy-based ink
- CE and UKCA marked