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The National Arbor Day Foundation: What Tree Is That?

For Students 9th - 10th
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?

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Tree Rings Simulation Dendrochronology

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
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]

For Students 3rd - 4th
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.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Minnesota Tree Leaves

For Teachers K - 1st
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Giving Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Activity: Trees and Air Quality

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Trees

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
See how different trees can look. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Tree Cookie Combat

For Teachers 4th
Understand what trees need to live and grow in the environment.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Trees

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Giving Tree [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Gardens: What Trees Provide [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Up in a Tree

For Students K - 1st Standards
See what might be hiding up in the branches of a tree. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Botany: Tree Planting

For Students 9th - 10th
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)
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Looking at the Community Tree

For Teachers 3rd
A neighborhood tree is observed for evidence of interactions between living and nonliving things.
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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids: Animals: Red Eyed Tree Frogs

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the binary tree data structure.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Toxic Trees: Just How Toxic Is That Black Walnut Tree?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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NC State University

North Carolina State Univ.: Growing Apple Trees in the Home Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
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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