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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students develop their awareness and knowledge of trees. They be involved in the world around them at home and at school and hopefully become caretakers of their environment. They adopt and identify a tree of their choice. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students identify the parts of a tree and their functions. They label the parts of a tree on a worksheet, glue construction paper tree parts together to construct a paper tree, and match definitions with their tree parts. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students identify and experiment with dendrochronology (the study of tree rings to answer ecological questions about the recent past) and come up with conclusions as to what possible climatic conditions might affect tree growth in their region. Students determine the average age of the trees in their schoolyard, investigate any years of poor growth, and draw conclusions about the reasons for the years of poor growth. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study environmental changes by examining the annual rings of a cross-section of a tree trunk. They access websites to complete a worksheet on the parts of a tree. They count the annual rings on a tree slice while observing its characteristics using a hand lens and play a game for lesson reinforcement. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students gather samples of different tree leaves in their neighborhoods, and on school grounds, and identify several species of common South Carolina trees using leaf and growth characteristics with aid of dichotomous key. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students identify different species of South Carolina trees using leaf and growth characteristics. If there are lots of trees, estimates are used as the identifying factors for the kind of tree. Students learn that by studying the leaves, bark and shape of the tree. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students examine how foresters manage and maintain the forest as a producing crop. After a discussion and a brief background introduction, students work in groups to compute the board feet of a pre-marked tree. Once students calculate board feet, the information can be extrapolated into how many houses could be built out of one tree or how many trees it would take to build one house. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine the debate about using trees to clean up the environment by reading and discussing a news article. They research the various contexts for which scientists may want to genetically alter trees and assess the validity of altering trees as a method of decreasing pollution. Students write persuasive letters to their congressional representatives supporting or refuting research. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students act out the different stages of a trees life cycle. They draw the life cycle of a tree. Students perform in front of their peers. Students also describe the shape and colors of b=various leaves. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 8th
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Students participate in numerous activities to explore characteristics of various trees. Over a period of one month, students make rubbings of tree bark, wax pressed leaves, identify and categorize them and organize a chart. Afterwards, they listen to guest speakers such as a lumberman, carpenter, or woodcarver. Students discuss national parks, forests, and the ecosystem for trees. Four week of hands-on activities are listed. Full Review »
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