Tree for All
Our new 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
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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 species of animal and plant.
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Nature Detectives website
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Wild about Woods video and CDROM
These resources celebrate Britain’s ancient woodland and are
guaranteed to provide inspirational material for all the family and
ideal to use before your next woodland visit. Featuring Childrens’ TV
presenter Howie Watkins, the video takes you on a journey back through
time to when the country was covered with wildwood. The CDROM contains
a variety of exciting activities to engage your children.
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Wild about woods
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Nature Detectives: Environmental Science for Primary children (120
pages)
This book is aimed at teachers and group leaders but also includes
activities that would be fun to try at home, either indoors or
outdoors. Sample exercises are also accessible online. A secondary
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Nature Detectives
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Family membership
Did you know that family membership of The Woodland Trust is now
available? As well as the normal benefits of adult membership, your
children become members of Special Branch. They get lots of resources,
a Special Branch membership card and badge, a sheet of stickers, a
woodland poster, build your own owl mask kit and Bark! our quarterly
magazine for younger supporters.
Recent stories in Bark! include
- The
fantastic world of fungi
- How to
measure a tree
- Dare you
enter the enchanted forest?
- How to grow
your own oak tree
- What trees
would tell us if they could talk
- How to make
elderflower ‘champagne’
Click on these selected (PDF)
articles from a recent edition:
Find out about joining Special Branch through
family membership.
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To find
out more about our family membership scheme
Click here
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Visit a wood – Is there a Woodland Trust wood near you?
The best way to get involved is to take the family to visit a wood. Click
here to discover our woods via a
directory
and
online
maps. A number of
our ancient woods have special waymarked trails designed to make the visit
even more rewarding. You can also discover
what’s happening in woods close
to you. In the winter months we have
tree planting activities around the
country. We warmly encourage families to participate in this inspirational
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Visit a wood
click here
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Exploring Woodland Guides
In partnership with HarperCollins, the Woodland Trust is producing a
series of Exploring Woodland guides featuring a selection of the best
woodlands in the UK. The following guides are currently available:
Peak District & Central England, East Anglia & North Thames, Southeast England, Northwest England and Yorkshire & the
Northeast. Copies can be
purchased online. A useful resource if you are planning a woodland
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Exploring Woodland Guides
click here
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Native Tree Shop
In partnership with Alba Trees, the Woodland Trust offers you the chance
to buy British native trees and shrubs online. A great opportunity to
enhance the wildlife value of your garden, whatever its size.
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Native Tree Shop
website
click here
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Other good sites
Parents with 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, follow
the link and go to ‘Other WWF-UK sites’ on the main toolbar and choose
“Just for kids – go wild!” |
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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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Parents with 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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Scottish
Natural Heritage
This site has a good set of factsheets on threatened species eg red
squirrel, habitats, eg peat bogs and environmental issues such as
sustainability and biodiversity.
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