Resources: exploring trees

Resources to support exploration of the amazing world of trees

Activity ideas and information plus how to map your tree as part of the Cambridge Canopy Project

Resources from the Woodland Trust including an activity finder by curriculum link, topic or keyword

Tree measuring activity focusing on tree height and tree girth and age from OWL Scotland

BBC video explaining how trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web

Tree ID guides for children including leaf, twig, blossom and catkin and fruit seed and nut identification

An Oak is a living thing but look closely and you will see that it is also home to a whole community of smaller living things

Why not write a story, song or poem to describe your tree, what lives in it or what it may have witnessed during its lifetime?

We are going to be exploring the magnificent Cambridge Oak through the seasons as part of the Inspire Nature project 2021

Tree focused resources to use onsite at the Botanic Garden

Compare two magnificent trees: the Giant Redwood and the Cedar of Lebanon

Navigate with a map to six trees within the Botanic Garden learning about them and their geography

Navigate with a map to common British trees within the Botanic Garden learning about them and their identifying features