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\nSelfless Service and The Giving Tree - Building Ethical Conscience\n

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\nUpper elementary schoolers investigate philanthropy and selflessness by reading a children's book. In this ethics lesson, they read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and research Mahatma Gandhi's troublesome, yet inspiring, life....\n
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\nThe Giving Tree\n

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\nLittle literature analysts listen as you read The Giving Tree to them and discuss other ways the tree could have helped the little boy.A three-column chart is given to each individual showing what the tree and boy gave to each...\n
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\nQuestions for The Book The Giving Tree\n

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\nAre you studying Shel Silverstein? Focus on The Giving Tree and talk about selflessness in your class. In this online interactive quiz, pupils respond to eleven multiple-choice reading comprehension questions on this particular...\n
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\nThe Giving Tree\n

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\nIn this The Giving Tree worksheet, students read the story The Giving Tree and identify words with pictures, fill in missing words, write correct numbers, and answer short answer questions. Students complete 4 activities.\n
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\nTrees-Whiz\n

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\nA unique series of lessons on trees is here for you. The series has learners utilize visual art, musical compositions, and literature in order to examine how trees have a place in a culture. The classic tale, The Giving Tree is one...\n
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\nThe Giving Tree\n

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\nBring the beauty of Shel Silverstein's classic, The Giving Tree, to you classroom. Eleven narrator parts allow as many kids as possible to read a part, as well as a part for the boy and the tree.\n
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\nThe Giving Tree\n

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\nStudents explore wants and needs. In this ecology and economics lesson, students listen to the story The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and compile a class list of what the boy got from the tree. Students categorize these items as...\n
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\nThe Giving Tree\n

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\nFourth graders participate in a shared reading of The Giving Tree. They discuss the relationship between trees and people in the story. Students contribute to a class KWL chart. They create their own KWL chart with at least four things...\n
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\nGetting to Know Trees\n

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\nCelebrate the beauty of trees with a packet full of activities designed to help kindergarteners get to know about their leafy nature friends. Covering a variety of subjects, scholars go on a nature hike, read Shel Silverstein's The...\n
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\nThe Giving Tree Anniversary Teaching Guide\n

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\nCelebrate poetry month all of April with a guide that uses six of Shel Silverstein's most famous books as a basis for the lessons. Discussion questions and writing activities are provided for each of Silverstein's books.\n
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\nSaving the Trees\n

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\nYoung scholars identify why trees are important. In this environmental instructional activity, students read the book The Giving Tree and list reasons why humans need trees. Young scholars create a storybook to explain why other natural...\n
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\nGiving Cheer\n

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\nStudents explore kind behavior. In this values development and literacy lesson, students listen to The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, then generate a class list of ways the tree helped the boy and ways in which the boy helped the tree....\n
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\nThe Giving Tree\n

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\nStudents investigate the virtue of kindness and giving by conducting a children's literature study of \"The Giving Tree\". They make a list of words to describe emotions in the story and write a journal daily while looking at the virtues...\n
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\nThe Giving Tree-Apple Activities\n

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\nStudents complete a variety of activities about apples. They read The Giving Tree and discuss the moral of the story. They create paintings with apples and have apples as a snack. They make an apple cookbook and estimate the number of...\n
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\nClassroom Community\n

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\nYoung scholars read the book The Giving Tree and discuss the sense of community the book talks about. In this community lesson plan, students discuss how they can help one another and they can treat each other nicely.\n
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\nGiving Tree Lesson\n

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\nStudents read and respond the book, The Giving Tree. In this literary unit, students listen to the story and discuss the story using Bloom's Taxonomy. Students write a letter of empathy to the tree and observe the changes the tree went...\n
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\nTaking From the Giving Tree\n

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\nLearners explore the ways in which various American cities negotiate the protection of their \"green infrastructure,\" gaining a broader understanding of proposed and enacted legislation as it relates to preserving and planting trees in...\n
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\nMeet the Trees!\n

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\nPupils investigate their school forest and make their own miniature forest. In this forest investigation lesson plan, students read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and make alist of reasons to have trees. Pupils investigate trees by...\n
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\nRecycling\n

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\nStudents read or listen to a story, and discuss how it relates to them. In this personal event writing activity, students write about recycling. Students read \"The Giving Tree\" a Shel Silverstein poem and discuss the poem's meaning....\n
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\nIntroduction to Trees and Wood\n

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\nStudents examine samples from various types of trees. In this trees and wood lesson plan, students review The Giving Tree and complete a KWL chart on trees.  Students brainstorm what we get from trees and view wood samples with...\n
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\nTeaching Economics Using Children's Literature\n

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\nIntroduce young learners to the subject of economics using their favorite stories and books. Including 24 separate lessons, this guide covers economic principles such as trade, scarcity, consumer goods and services, renewable and...\n
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\nWays We Use Trees \n

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\nStudents use the Internet to find the ways we use trees. In this tree lesson, students make a list of the uses of trees and find magazine pictures that show these uses to make a collage. They read The Giving Tree  by Shel...\n
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\nWhere'd You Get That Paper and Pencil?\n

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\nThird graders make a poster display of objects made from trees. In this wood products lesson, 3rd graders read \"The Giving Tree,\" discuss things that are produced from trees and watch the videos \"Let's Make a Pencil,\" and \"How Paper is...\n
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\nIt's the Real Thing\n

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\nLearners listen to a read-aloud of Shel Silverstein's, The Giving Tree, identifying which parts of the story and which are make believe.\n
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