What to do at a schools fair?

[Jay]

We have been asked to put on a display at a schools fair next week. There is 4000 primary school kids coming and the day is focusing on agriculture and the environment. We have a large mature Oak which we can climb and set up some rigging kit. We are also hoping to touch a bit on tree biology. Has anyone else done stuff like this? Would be grateful of any ideas people may have as to how to keep them interested!

 

Cheers

Jay

[felixthelogchopper]

Get some big wood and give it some welly with your loudest , biggest saw as a finale.

[easy-lift guy]

You could have a small picture display set up showing trees in a mature state being harvested into unfinished material and made into finished furniture!

Showing an actual piece of finished product will help the students understand an industry in your country that I suspect many do not know about.

easy-lift guy

[agg221]

I suggest dropping David Humphries a PM - having seen some of his posts of pictures where he's explaining what's going on to the local schoolchildren, he probably has a good idea what grabs their attention!

 

If you can get a decently secure low barrier fence then taking along as many big shiny toys as possible and being prepared to explain what they are for would be good.

 

If you can get a good lump on site (piece of scrap poplar/willow, say 6-8' long x 18" diameter, pinned to a 4' square piece of 0.5" plywood as a baseplate?), standing upright then demonstrating coronet cuts and bat-slots and explaining their wildlife potential could be good. At the end, as Felix says, you can then fell it!

 

Alec

[Chris Sheppard]

Helped out at something kinda similar a few years ago and they'd set it up in such a way to show the whole process from a standing tree into an end product of some sort.

 

This event was for mainly inner city schools and many of the kids had never made the link between trees and what's made from them (cutting some thin boards on the mill, one yelled out something like "look - they're making laminate flooring" )

 

Main thing is to keep it simple and interesting - make some noise and mess and you're half way there

[Rigger Mortis]

We have been asked to put on a display at a schools fair next week. There is 4000 primary school kids coming and the day is focusing on agriculture and the environment. We have a large mature Oak which we can climb and set up some rigging kit. We are also hoping to touch a bit on tree biology. Has anyone else done stuff like this? Would be grateful of any ideas people may have as to how to keep them interested!

 

Cheers

Jay

 

School farm fair on 24th?

 

See you afterwards in the conference centre for drinks and canapes.

[Stubby]

Get some big wood and give it some welly with your loudest , biggest saw as a finale.

 

And pull up in the biggest F off John Deer you can get hold of ....

[felixthelogchopper]

And pull up in the biggest F off John Deer you can get hold of ....

 

Knew I had missed something.

[Stubby]

Knew I had missed something.

 

can't beat a bit of culture what ?

[felixthelogchopper]

can't beat a bit of culture what ?

 

Somebody will be along in a minute to say that it should be Unimog.