Toolkit

This toolkit supports learning with children and young people in and around trees.

This toolkit supports learning with children and young people in and around trees. If you are a teacher or other educator keen to develop outdoor learning or interdisciplinary learning on the natural world, you will find ideas and practical activities here. Some activities are for visits to woods, while others focus on individual or small groups of trees. Some are for the classroom or between the classroom and outdoors. The point is not to teach children about trees – although that is likely to happen along the way – but to use trees and woods as a resource for learning.

We think that all areas of the curriculum can be explored both outdoors and in the classroom, and that there are many benefits to outdoor learning. Once outdoors, trees and woods can provide a focus and structure for learning activities. This is the Treescapes curriculum.

The research team gratefully acknowledges everyone who took part in our project, especially the children and young people we learned about treescapes with. We also acknowledge our colleagues across the UK in the ‘Voices of the Future’ project who have helped shape this toolkit.