Trees resources

Students read a map of a new school, and answer questions about the placement of some trees. They are assessed on their ability to suggest the trees' impact on the school environment.

Task: Students differentiate between simple observations and inferences, and between observations that require measurement and those that do not. Assessment focus: observing scientifically.

Students are provided with two photographs of an area, one before a tree planting programme and one five years later. Students are asked to write an article on how tree-planting helps the environment.

Students are provided with a situation where the bank on the school field is eroding. They are asked to write a plan for a tree-planting programme that would help to slow down the erosion.

Students explain their understandings of the benefits of having trees in the school playground.

Task: Describe problems caused by cutting down trees on a bank. Assessment focus: erosion.

For this NEMP task students show their understanding of the life cycle, functions and parts of a tree.

Task: Students apply both their knowledge of the functions of roots and information from a model to explain why care is needed when transplanting trees. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Using illustrations from five different beech trees and a key, students are asked to identify which type of beech tree each leaf comes from.

Task: Students draw a fruit tree for each season of the year. Assessment focus: Seasonal changes of fruit trees.