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Tree for All
Our five year campaign with an
ambitious target to involve one million children helping to plant 12
million trees. There are lots of opportunities to plant real trees
as well as planting an etree online.
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Tree for All
website
click here
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Trafalgar Woods
Part of our five year Tree for All campaign, this website explains
how the Woodland Trust is commemorating the 200th anniversary of the
Battle of Trafalgar. It includes a chance to find out if there was
somewhere from your area at the battle or even someone with the same
surname!
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Trafalgar Woods website
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Nature
Detectives website
An exciting way for 4-18s to learn more about the natural world.
Visit the website for fun indoor and outdoor activities and the
chance to help scientists with their research on climate change by
looking out for common animals and plants. |
Nature Detectives website
click here |
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Free trees for schools
Are your school grounds in need of some tender loving care? If so,
they can benefit from a free pack of 30 native trees (enough for a
small grove or short length of hedge) which come with hints and tips
for planting and looking after the trees plus an activity pack.
Please tell your teacher about this offer! |
School hedge and copse pack
Click here |
Other great ideas
Younger
children
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Planet
Arkive
Lots of fun facts about animals and where they live and some excellent
games, including the chance to design a habitat for rare species and
be a detective in an environmental murder mystery. |
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CBBC wild
games
Lots of games and information. It includes a “build a beast” game,
chance to find out what kind of animal you are most like, ways for you
to help wildlife and the jobs that involve working with animals. |
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WWF “go
wild”
This site has quizzes and information about important environmental
topics like climate change and extinction. To reach this site scroll
to the bottom of the homepage and follow
the link called 'WWF websites for....kids' on the left hand toolbar. |
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Kids'
planet
This American website has lots of quizzes, puzzles, fact sheets on
endangered species and information about how you can help the
environment. |
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DynaMo’s
Lab (BBC)
Includes a science quiz - get questions right to avoid poor DynaMo
being splatted, match animals to their habitat and an odd one out
game. |
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National
Geographic’s forest exploration
Follow a trail through an American forest and use the clues to meet
the different forest dwellers. |
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Explore
the secret life of trees
Meet Pierre, a talking acorn who gives you lots of information about
how trees live and grow. |
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Older
children
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Whose land
is it anyway? (The National Trust)
Lots of people have different views about how we should use our
countryside. In this interactive game you’ll meet Jack Crackit the
farmer who is thinking of selling his land to a property developer,
but lots of other countryside characters have strong ideas about
whether he is right or not. Make up your own mind who you agree with
and cast your vote! |
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Environment Agency
Lots of excellent animated movies, games and information about the
environment. Learn about the problems of waste, flooding and loss of
UK wildlife. |
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BBC
Wildfacts
Use this massive database to research information about hundreds of
different wild animals from around the world. |
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Amazon
Interactive
Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Learn about the
rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Then try your hand
at running your own ecotourism project for foreign visitors – you will
have lots of difficult dilemmas along the way!
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