How a forest looks and feels pre-visit resource

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Pre-visit learning resource

Age suitability: KS2 (age 7-11)

Activity: preparing for a forest visit

This resource will bring scientific enquiries to life. Challenge your pupils to create exciting experiments to explore what a forest looks and feels like. They will do some research before making predictions, planning and carrying out their own experiments, analysing their results and evaluating their enquiries.

Curriculum links:

  • English: writing, composition
  • Mathematics: statistics
  • Science: working scientifically

This three-page activity resource includes:

  • resource checklist
  • teacher instructions for a full scientific enquiry
  • printable pupil checklist

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