Why is the forest important? Recreation Pupils go to forest and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Why is the forest important?

• Recreation
• Citizenship – clean the forests
• Food web and biodivesity
• Impact of landuse on flooding
• Role of forest on climate
• Seasonality and plant growth
• Plant adapation
• Spirituality
• Pupils go to forest and gather

evidence (e.g. photos or cuttings)

• They then come to the classroom

and use the computers to annotate and present based on the points to the left.

Lesser celandine

• These plants are low growing

perennials and they are in the buttercup family

• They have a bulb in the soil and

grow in the spring when trees have little or no leaves

• They are poisonous to animals like

horses

• It is regarded by many people in

Europe as a harbinger of spring

Rook nests

• In Czech republic they only stay in
• winter. Here in Croatia they nest in

spring in trees.

Awarness campaign and cleaning the forest with students

Role of people on the forest (e.g. car pollution and lichens, human impact on bark)

Lesser celandine

• These plants are low growing

perennials and they are in the buttercup family

• They have a bulb in the soil and

grow in the spring when trees have little or no leaves

• They are poisonous to animals like

horses

• It is regarded by many people in

Europe as a harbinger of spring