Skink Habitats & Conservation Pack: Map, Sort & Reading

A skink habitats and conservation pack for ages 8–12: habitats gallery, world map, habitat sort, design a home, Christmas Island reading, comeback stories and a skink-friendly garden plan.

What’s inside:

- Teacher notes (contents, learning goals, vocabulary, background)

- Where do skinks live? habitats gallery

- Skinks on the map (label and colour)

- Habitat sort (cut and stick, 8 skinks)

- A home for a skink (design and label)

- Reading: The lost skinks of Christmas Island

- Questions and timeline sequencing

- Comeback stories (compare three recoveries)

- Plan a skink-friendly garden

- Answers

- Credits & licence page

Pages: 12 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both included as PDF.

Who it’s for: Ages 8–12 · KS2 science and geography (habitats, living things) · home-educators.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named sources (the Reptile Database, peer-reviewed studies, the Australian Museum, NZ Department of Conservation, vet care sheets and others) and listed on the credits page. Images are public domain or CC0 (historic natural-history plates and prints, Natural Earth map data) or REALLYBYTE’s own artwork.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind skinks.animals.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com