Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe differences between different types of trees growing in the school grounds or a local park and some vocabulary cards to sort and group objects collected from the school grounds into matching groups for size and shape.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explain how trees can be the same or different in terms of their size and shape and suggest how the trees might change during the autumn season.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate changes to different trees during the autumn and explore how this affects animals that live in a woodland habitat including owls and squirrels. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.