Teachers Learning Pack- Carbon Footprint

This Learning Pack has been created to provide teachers will engaging tasks to educate children about fossil fuel and carbon footprints. Included in this pack is an Activity plan, Worksheets and Resource Cards. All three resources can also be downloaded separately.

Teachers Learning Pack- Carbon storage calculator

This Learning Pack has been created to provide teachers will engaging tasks to educate children and help them calculate carbon storage. Included in this pack is an Activity plan, Worksheets and Resource Cards. All three resources can also be downloaded separately.

This activity plan highlights the importance of sustainably managing our natural resources, focusing
on the important role trees have as a carbon store; absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
through photosynthesis

Teachers Learning Pack- Woodland Management

How a tree works activity plan-

This activity plan highlights the importance of sustainably managing our natural resources focussing
on trees and their systems function

The woodland management tree cycle-

This activity plan highlights the importance of sustainably managing our natural resources, focusing
on the life cycle of trees and the cycle of sustainable woodland management

Sustainable Site Management Video- Conservation and Nature Play – Part Two

In the second video of this series, discover how to take children into local woodland for conservation and nature play.

Click here to view this video.

Sensory Woodland Stories- Storytelling tips and Origins

This resource sits alongside the Sensory Stories and Rhymes cards and provides tips to enhance the experience for those involved. This also provides background information on the origins of the stories.

Sensory Woodland Stories

A range of simple and inspiring education story resources for children with complex additional needs. Scripts and suggested props to allow for extra engagement and flexibility to suit the children you are working with. The Storytelling Tips and Origins resource accompanies these cards and provides tips to enhance the experience for those involved. This also provides background information on the origins of the stories.

Trees, People and the Country Estate

The Trees , People and the Country Estate resource is an introduction to the Enlightenment and the role trees and forestry played in the development of modern Scotland.   It is designed to support curricular work delivering People in the Past and People in Place Experiences and Outcomes.  Relevant topics supported by this resource include the Jacobites, slavery and its abolition, the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the New Town of Edinburgh and Scotland at the time of Burns.   This resource is supported by the shorter companion resource  Trees and the Scottish Enlightenment. 

Trees and the Scottish Enlightenment

This resource, Trees and the Scottish Enlightenment is an outline of the story of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of modern forestry and is intended as a brief introduction to a complex subject, which is complemented by the more detailed stories told in Trees, People and the Country Estate.  Links to this resource are given through this text and are highlighted in yellow with page numbers. 

Scotland is the home of modern Forestry.   Forests here are managed now very differently to how woodlands were managed in the past.  This resource tells the story of how Scottish forestry developed during a particular historical time period, known as the Enlightenment and in a particular sort of place, the Scottish Country Estate.

Wolf Brother’s Wildwoods

This popular resource has been produced to support teachers who are reading the novel Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver with their classes. Set in Mesolithic times, the novel is not only an exciting read but also reveals much about the lives of hunter-gatherers who lived in Scotland 10,000 years ago.

The resource aims to:

Bring the Mesolithic period to life through a series of woodland and classroom learning activities

Encourage pupils and teachers to enjoy spending time in their local woodland

Support teachers in delivering Curriculum for Excellence outcomes through outdoor learning

Wolf Brother’s Wildwoods (coastal resources)

Annotated poster to support Scottish Forestry’s Wolf Brother’s Wildwoods resource, showing how Mesolithic people used the coastal landscape for food gathering and campsites.

Wolf Brother’s Wildwoods: Every part of the deer (poster)

Annotated poster to support Wolf Brother’s Wildwoods resource, showing how wild boar and deer are skinned and used in a Mesolithic camp.

The Wee Tree Name Guide

The Wee Tree Name Guide is part of the Identifying Trees resource, also created by Outdoor & Woodland Learning Scotland. The Identifying Trees resource along with others highlighted within, such as the Woodland Trust Tree ID app, will help provide further information on how to identify trees and should be used together to gain a deeper knowledge and insight into this topic.

Learning to identify and name trees and putting that skill to use gives a positive context and provides key tools for addressing two of the most pressing concerns of the climate emergency: loss of biodiversity and inequality. It also brings Learning for Sustainability through Outdoor Learning to life.