Can Trees Time Travel?

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This fully immersive escape room style activity introduces the BIFoR FACE experiment and encourages learners to consider the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems. Learners work as a group to complete a virtual tour of BIFoR FACE before using knowledge gained to reflect on what makes a good research question  and begin to develop their own.

 

Key Stage

 3, 4 and 5

Learning Objectives 

  • Describe climate change and suggest how it might impact ecosystem structures and functions

  • Describe different ways scientists might investigate the impact of climate change

  • Apply knowledge gained about the BIFoR FACE experiment to develop research questions

Key Words 
Biodiversity Decomposition Ecosystem  Respiration Transpiration

 

To find out where this resource fits in with your curriculum,  check out the lesson plan below: 

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