Ash Dieback- Tree pest and Disease Series

Information sheet on Ash Dieback including images, impact, spread, symptoms and outcomes.

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

Woodland Workout – Physical Activities

A set of Physical Activity Cards that can be used alongside the Woodland Workout Teacher’s Guide and the Woodland Workout Activity Cards.

To enable all children (aged 3-14 years), to participate in enjoyable learning experiences in local woodlands and other
outdoor environments such as playgrounds and parks, that will develop enterprising knowledge, skills and attitudes and promote physical health and wellbeing.

Woodland Workout – Activity Guide

Activity Guide for Woodland Workout which relates to the Woodland Workout Teacher’s Guide and the Woodland Workout Games.

To enable all children (aged 3-14 years), to participate in enjoyable learning experiences in local woodlands and other outdoor environments such as playgrounds and parks, that will develop enterprising knowledge, skills and attitudes and promote
physical health and wellbeing.

Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest

by Silva Slovenica

This book is intended for anyone taking the first steps into forest pedagogy and for all those who choose the new unexplored paths of teaching in nature. The authors are researchers from the Slovenian Forestry Institute who deal with different topics in the field of forestry.

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.

Sustainable Site Management Video- Tree Climbing and Tree Management

Earthtime’s Forest School Nursery staff share some ideas and examples of how to manage climbing activities whilst minimising damage to trees. https://youtu.be/Q0djspmzE1Q

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.