Age suitability: KS3 (age 11-14) and KS4 (age 14-16)
Type of activity: Field work and classroom analysis.
Curriculum links
- Maths: statistics
- Science: working scientifically, biology (photosynthesis)
- Geography: weather and climate, geography skills and fieldwork
This fieldwork activity will enable students to record the growth of trees over time, encouraging them to consider all of the factors involved.
The second task involves analysing real data from our colleagues at Forest Research so students can see how this method is used for scientific purposes.
Resource contents
- background information
- full methodology
- real dataset on accompanying spreadsheet
- questions to help students to analyse the data
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