Why do Leaves Fall in Autumn? EYFS/KS1

Take EYFS/KS1 children on a journey through autumn, finding out why leaves change colour and fall
Teaches:

• Why trees have leaves: to make food so that trees can do their work

• How the leaves capture light and air and roots take in water What work trees do - making seeds

• Kinds of seeds: nuts and berries

• The difference between deciduous and evergreen trees

• Why the leaves change colour - changing season and shortening hours of daylight

• Are the trees now dead? What happens next?

• 30 full-colour slides

• Animated

• No sound - teacher/pupils to read the simple text on each slide

• Ideal as a springboard to outdoor learning - get out of the classroom this autumn!

No cartoons, no music, no dumbing down - for we must present learning as serious if it is to be credible and to nurture life-long, thinking, learners.

See our popular Free Leaf Sorting activity

See also our Horse Chestnut Tree Life Cycle Lesson Resources Pack

Find out more at KS1 Nature.