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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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