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We are Trees
What’s our relationship to the trees that surround us?
- Project page
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About Us
- Ages
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11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18
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Identity and diversity Sustainability and our future Wellbeing and resilience
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Lesson plan
- Duration
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60 minutes
This interdisciplinary learning resource, designed for pupils aged 14-18, uses a maple tree as a prompt to explore questions of nature, science, identity and humanity.
Using creative writing, literature and science, the lesson programme is centred on Maple, a poem by young writer Talulah Quinto, in which the writer uses a maple tree as a central image to explore identity and human characteristics. The resource contains plenty of discussion prompts for young people to engage with the text and create their own poems.
Lesson plan
Curriculum links
England:
English: Writing & Reading Composition
Science: Interactions & Interdependencies (KS3), Ecosystems (KS4)
Key Stages: KS3, KS4, KS5
Northern Ireland:
Language & Literacy: Writing & Reading
Science & Technology: Organisms & Health
Key Stages: KS3, KS4, KS5
Scotland:
Languages: Literacy & English – Writing & Reading
Levels: Third/Fourth Level, Senior Phase
Wales:
Languages, Literacy & Communication: Literature
Science & Technology: Being Curious, The World Around Us
Progression Steps: PS4, PS5, A levels