1. Trees have been on our planet
since long before the
Dinosaurs

2. Even when they die trees provide
Trees make great homes
for wildlife
Even when they die trees provide
food and shelter for animals and plants
They make our towns and countryside
better places to live in

3. A tree may be growing on its own
Lots and lots of trees
growing together is a
FOREST
Smaller than a
forest but still
with lots of trees
is a WOOD
Little groups of trees
are called a COPSE
GROVE or SPINNEY
When fruit trees
grow together we
call it an
ORCHARD

4. Trees can help to reduce flooding
Trees help to cool our cities
Trees help hospital patients get better quicker
Trees help cows to produce more milk

5. Where would you prefer to be?
A room indoors
A woodland glade

6. There are lots of types of tree
How many can you think of?

7. A S HORNBEAM H CHERRY HOLLY CHESTNUT LIME ELM SYCAMORE OAK PINE
HERE ARE SOME TYPES OF TREE A S H
HORNBEAM
CHERRY
HOLLY
CHESTNUT
LIME
ELM
SYCAMORE
OAK
PINE
Did you think of any others?

8. The seed of the Oak is called an Acorn.
LET’S LOOK AT ONE OF THESE – THE OAK
The seed of the Oak is called
an Acorn.
In a good year one Oak can produce
100,000 acorns
What happens to them?

9. Squirrels collect
them and bury
them
So do Magpies!
Wild Boar eat them
but also trample them
into the ground.
Pigs love to eat them

10. ? ? Squirrels and Magpies may forget where they buried some acorns
So these grow up into – what?

11. Seedlings, which become new Oak Trees

12. How do you recognise an Oak Tree?
The leaves are very easy to spot – they are wavy
You may see
acorns on it
The buds are clustered together at the tip of the twig.
Even in Winter you can see this.

13. You may see these on an Oak They are called Marble Galls because they
look like marbles.

14. Hundreds of years ago
Marble Galls were
used to make ink.
Important documents
like the
Magna Carta
were written
with it

15. Instead of growing into leaves the bud grows into a nice little
This tiny
fly lays an
egg in an
oak bud
Instead of growing into leaves
the bud grows into a nice little
home for the young fly
When the larva is ready to
fly away, it makes a hole
so that it can get out.
You can often find the hole
if you look

16. HOW OLD IS THAT OAK? Can you see how its branches have to be
propped up
Some think
Robin Hood
may have
known it
This old oak is called the Major Oak
It is 10 metres around the middle
It is 800-1,000 years old
It is in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire

17. HOW OLD IS YOUR OAK? But what do you do if the tree is still standing?
When a tree is cut
down you can see
lots of rings.
Each ring
is one year of
its life.
Count the rings
to know its age
But what do you
do if the tree is
still
standing?
This tree has
around 11
rings so it is
11 years old

18. An Oak tree grows around 2.4 centimetres a year.
Measure the
circumference
of the tree around
1.5 metres from the ground.
Divide the answer in
centimetres by 2.4
to get the
rough age of the tree
1.5
metres

19. Look-up table for age of Oaks
Girth of tree
in metres and
centimetres
0m 25cm
0m 50cm
1m 00cm
1m 85cm
1m 98cm
2m 48cm
3m 10cm
3m 70cm
4m 33cm
4m 95cm
5m 58cm
6m 20cm
6m 80cm
7m 43cm
8m 03cm
8m 65cm
9m 28cm
9m.88cm
Equals
Estimated
age in years 10 21 42 75 80
103
138
181
232
291
358
433
515
606
704
810
924
1046

20. Oak wood is very useful It was used for building ships
For making furniture
For making barrels
To construct buildings

21. An oak tree has more animals and insects
living or feeding on it than any other
type of tree
Bats live in the
oak and eat
the insects
Badgers and deer
love to eat
acorns
Fungi grow on
fallen or dead
wood

22. The Oak Tree
by Johnny Ray Ryder Jr
A mighty wind blew night and day It stole the oak tree's leaves away Then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark Until the oak was tired and stark But still the oak tree held its ground While other trees fell all around The weary wind gave up and spoke. How can you still be standing Oak? The oak tree said, I know that you Can break each branch of mine in two Carry every leaf away Shake my limbs, and make me sway
But I have roots stretched in the earth Growing stronger since my birth You'll never touch them, for you see They are the deepest part of me Until today, I wasn't sure Of just how much I could endure But now I've found, with thanks to you I'm stronger than I ever knew

23. We must look after our trees
Why not plant a tree?