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National Tree Week: CREST Awards Projects!
National Tree Week begins on the 23rd of November 2024 and you can celebrate with your learners using these STEMsational projects!
Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce most of the oxygen we breathe. We need to nurture them and plant more.
National Tree Week is the perfect time to think about our environment and climate and how we can protect our trees and the wildlife they shelter. Take a look at the primary and secondary activities below, they tick all the boxes and your students could earn a CREST Award too!
Primary Projects
A Special New Tree (Green Spaces)
Different types of trees and their characteristics.
Tree Trouble
Save the tree! Thinking about trees as habitats for other living things.
Goodbye Old Tree
Trees and the different materials we get from trees.
Animal Adventure
Learn about minibeasts and habitats.
Secondary Projects
Clean Growth
Monitoring Acid Rain
Plant Growth Nutrients
Climate Science Resource Pack
Partner Resource: British Council – Tree For Life
National Tree Week: The Tree Council – Plant a Tree & Nurture Young Trees
Young Tree Champions
As North West Regional CREST Support Organisation, All About STEM promote CREST Awards across the region and point schools & clubs to the support they need to run this amazing scheme. CREST Awards encourage students to work like scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own project ideas.
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