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The National Arbor Day Foundation: What Tree Is That?
Imagine a world without trees. Students can click on a barren field to see the transformation of the bare dirt by plants and trees. The authors include an online reference guide that lists the benefits of trees and an excellent...
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What Tree Is It?
You've climbed this tree, sat in its branches and collected its leaves. Now you are old enough to know that it has a name. How can you tell what kind it is? Here are some ways to check: by leaf, by fruit, or just by the way it looks.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Tree Rings Simulation Dendrochronology
Tree rings help scientists learn about past climates by decoding tree ring patterns. Use this interactive simulation to learn how tree ring patterns tell us about climate conditions in the past.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Trees
Comprehensive overview of trees features facts on structure, leaves, species, characteristics, reproduction, and conservation.
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Coillte: Module 3: Learn About Trees [Pdf]
Print and complete the activities and experiments in this 22-page handout to learn more about how a tree lives, seeds and planting them, types of trees, and trees and wildlife.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Minnesota Tree Leaves
For this biology field exercise, learners will collect leaves, describe differences seen in casual and detailed observation and give reasons for the importance of trees. Students will use their five senses to take a closer look at leaves...
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Montreal Botanical Garden: Trees Inside Out
A comprehensive resource on trees, covering many topics, including growth, needs, diversity, and identification. There is a section profiling botanists who work at this arboretum, and another where the public can present questions to the...
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Oh Deptartment of Natural Resources: Ohio's Trees
A listing of all Ohio's trees complete with a description and picture. List is alphabetical from Alder to Willow. Be sure to click on "Big Trees," for statistics and pictures of the biggest trees in Ohio.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Giving Tree
Lesson using the book The Giving Tree to learn about friendship and the Treetures website to learn about the importance of trees. In groups of four, learners create posters about the connection between trees and people. (Note: Book...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Activity: Trees and Air Quality
Site offers lessons and activities designed to supplement study of the environment and ecology. Concise explanations are presented on the importance of trees in our world. Also, problem solving and creative thinking is encouraged...
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National Arbor Day Foundation: Tree Diversity Activity [Pdf]
After teaching your students about a trees' growth characteristics, and landscape functions assess them by having them create a diverse community forest using the worksheets provided. This PDF document requires Adobe Reader.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Trees
See how different trees can look. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tree Cookie Combat
Understand what trees need to live and grow in the environment.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Trees
In this investigation, students will record an observation (drawing) of a tree in their science notebook. Following the observation, students will discuss what they observed and a list will be created by the classroom teacher. Based on...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Shel Silverstein's narrative poem, The Giving Tree, is provided on these pages. Thirteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Gardens: What Trees Provide [Pdf]
This lesson from the Smithsonian Gardens introduces students to concepts of habitat as well as to help them understand the importance of trees and what they provide.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Up in a Tree
See what might be hiding up in the branches of a tree. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Botany: Tree Planting
Provides information about benefits of having trees in one's yard or on a farm, how to choose one, where to put it, how to plant it properly and safely, and how to care for it. (Published: October 9, 2009)
Utah Education Network
Uen: Looking at the Community Tree
A neighborhood tree is observed for evidence of interactions between living and nonliving things.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Red Eyed Tree Frogs
National Geographic site engages users with colorful photos and extensive facts about Red-Eyed Tree Frogs. Be sure to click on the video link to view a short clip on these fascinating animals.
University of Auckland School of Computer Science
Morris: Trees
A description of the binary tree data structure.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree
This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Toxic Trees: Just How Toxic Is That Black Walnut Tree?
The goal of this plant biology science fair project is to make and test an herbicide made from the leaves of the black walnut tree and investigate the toxicity of black walnut trees.
NC State University
North Carolina State Univ.: Growing Apple Trees in the Home Garden
This comprehensive site provides a wealth of information about how to grow apple trees. Site selection, training and pruning central leader trees, harvesting, and fruit storage are several of the topics covered.
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