Roly Poly Cottage
Event Year: 2024
Event Location: Cocoa-FL
Competition: Critter Comfort Cottage
Division: 3-5
School: Cape View Elementary
Team Name: Space Coast Dragons
Project Name: Roly Poly Cottage
Team Size: 2
Event Location: Cocoa-FL
Competition: Critter Comfort Cottage
Division: 3-5
School: Cape View Elementary
Team Name: Space Coast Dragons
Project Name: Roly Poly Cottage
Team Size: 2
Design Documentation
Materials Used:
- Legos for the base (reused)
- Large pickle jar with a lid (reused)
- Small rocks (from nature)
- Screen material
- Soil
- Leaves (from nature)
- Driftwood (from nature)
- Moss (from nature)
- Small Plants (from nature)
- Spray bottle of water (reused)
Help Received:
- Our Parents (helped gather materials, figure out this webpage, register our team, supervised construction, gave advice, recorded video, took pictures, purchased soil and material)
- The Internet (watched terrarium builds on YouTube, googled roly poly habitats)
- https://youtu.be/KWEkONjPc3k?si=RmTHaBdgs2NF10G3
- https://youtu.be/WgjxzFu1CpM?si=loFXs4bv4Qkp1hjT
- https://youtu.be/71vojZYyRs0?si=kWEMAQKrN8WxKUp3
- https://youtu.be/RbbLm5IGIHE?si=Aeuf21BDkZwYg4nO
- https://www.alabamawildlife.org/wonders-of-wildlife-pillbug/#Habitat%20Needs
- https://ficarrofarms.com/caring-for-roly-polys/
- https://extension.unh.edu/resource/pillbugs-interactive-investigation-animal-behaviors-stem-activity
- https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/DE36066F-E528-CF94-8F079306A8293D59/pillbugs.pdf
- https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nature-detectives-2016b.pdf
- A Walmart store associate cut material for us to buy and helped us find soil.
- Crillen’s brother printed a 3D Roly Poly for us to use.