Grasslands Ecosystem Report Template

Take your students on a romp through the grasslands! From the African savanna to the Great Plains of North America grasslands are nature’s wide-open playground.

✨ Perfect for grades 3–8, here’s what you need to bring ecosystems to life:

• Iconic BBC Videos: Share the clips on this page to introduce the location, plants, animals, and climate of the grasslands. (Don't miss the giraffes and bison!) Brought to you by world-class BBC programs such as Planet Earth, The Americas With Simon Reeve, and Seven Worlds, One Planet. 
• Free Printable: Use the Grasslands Brochure Template to help students pull it all together in an ecosystem report with facts they’ve learned (and a little extra research).

It’s everything you need to make ecosystems easy to teach and truly memorable for your students.

Every living thing is connected — this collection helps students see how. It covers six ecosystems: grasslands, desert, coral reef, tropical rainforest, mountain, and polar, each with its own video and matching report template.

After watching BBC video clips about an ecosystem, have students dig deeper with their own research and build a brochure covering:

• Location of the ecosystem on a world map
• Adjectives that describe the ecosystem
• Three animals that live there
• Three plants that grow there
• The climate
• Why the ecosystem matters
• Their favorite fun facts

Students summarize in their own words, which means they're practicing a real skill: pulling information from multiple sources and deciding what's worth keeping. Use one report template explore all six ecosystems back-to-back as a full unit.

Explore the wide-open world of grasslands and discover the amazing animals that live in one of Earth’s largest biomes. From enormous elephants and powerful buffalo to towering Kori bustards, hardworking leafcutter ants, and rare Saiga antelope, students will learn how animals survive and thrive in these vast landscapes of grasses and few trees.

This Kahoot explores the unique features of grassland ecosystems, including climate, food chains, migration, and the special adaptations that help animals find food, avoid predators, and survive changing seasons. Students will also discover the differences between tropical savannas and temperate grasslands and the incredible diversity of life found in each.

Watch the related BBC videos (below), then invite your Grade 3–8 students to test their knowledge and uncover the wonders of life on the grasslands.

In African Grasslands Provide Food for Millions, narrator Sir David Attenborough teaches about how some animals eat grass and grass seeds. The East African savannas supports a population of 1.5 million red-billed quelea, and nearly 2 million wildebeest. This video is excerpted from BBC's Planet Earth, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.

In The Industrious Insects of the Grasslands, narrator Sir David Attenborough explains that around the world, over one-third of the grass that grows will be harvested by insects. Grass cutter ants harvest grass to feed underground fungus that they feed upon. Termites can digest grass, and they in turn become food for the giant anteater. After a prairie fire, termites and anteaters must wait for living roots to regenerate grass. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Planet Earth II, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.

In A Harvest Mouse Navigates the Grasslands, narrator Sir David Attenborough shows how the harvest mouse uses its prehensile tail to navigate the grasslands, find food, and avoid predators like barn owls. This video is excerpted from Planet Earth II, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.