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Our Friends the Trees
Young scholars build an animal habitat. In this animal habitats instructional activity, students create dead-wood habitats and observe the habitat over a period of weeks.
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Tree Encounters of the Close Kind
Students write an imaginative paragraph from the perspective of a tree. In this environmental awareness instructional activity, students observe a tree and brainstorm a list of adjectives to describe their tree. Using this list, students...
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Tree Identification
In this tree identification worksheet, students collect samples from different trees and identify them using the deciduous tree guide or the conifer key.
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Get in Touch With Trees
In this five senses worksheet, students complete several activities that help them improve their sense of touch and learn about their environment.
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Look at Those Leaves!
Young scholars research tree leaves. For this tree leaves lesson, students observe, measure, and sort tree leaves. Young scholars examine leaves individually, in groups, and in relationship to the entire tree.
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Trees and Their Parts
Students research trees and their parts. In this forestry lesson plan, students participate in various learning stations to identify trees by matching the photographs of the tree to the correct name.
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Learning About Trees
Students identify the parts of a tree. In this earth science lesson, students draw a tree on construction paper and label the parts of the tree.
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Arbor Day
In this Arbor Day instructional activity, 4th graders use a short passage and dialog for ESL skills. Students read about two people planting a tree and create a dialog and conversation about what they have read.
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Evergreen Trees & Softwood
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to evergreen trees and other softwood trees. There are 26 earth science terms located in the word search.
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Natural Vegetation
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to natural vegetation. There are 21 earth science terms located in the word search.
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Picture Scramble: Black-winged Damselfly, Balsam Poplar, Yellowjacket
In this science and visual discrimination worksheet, students examine images of a damselfly, balsam poplar and a yellowjacket. Next to each picture is the same image which has been divided into 9 pieces and scrambled. Students place the...
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I Can Rhyme
In this language arts worksheet, 1st graders think of words that rhyme with each underlined word. Then they write as many as they can on the lines provide for each of the four words.
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Adopt-A-Tree Certificate
In this adopt-a-tree certificate worksheet, students choose a tree and complete 3 observation questions as well as conduct some height and circumference calculations.
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Alphabet 6
In this literacy worksheet, students cut out all the cards and match the letter to the correct picture. Then they paste them next to each other on a separate piece of paper. There are eight letters and eight pictures to match.
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Tree
In this handwriting worksheet, students study the four words associated with trees and then fill in the blanks below with those unique terms to make each sentence correct in usage.
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Did You Know
In this Did You Know worksheet, students complete the sentence, "Did you know..." by writing about trees. They are given pictures of two different types of tree to write about.
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Trees
In this trees word scramble worksheet, students unscramble 15 vocabulary words that pertain to trees. A word bank is not provided for this difficult puzzle.
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Ecology: Trees
Fourth graders read the defintions of renewale and nonrenewable resources and discuss any incorrect responses. They view a sample of work for the class to see which they describe posting responses on the board in their respective columns...
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Ecology: Trees
Fourth graders research and identify the different layers of the forest. As a class, they observe real-life trees or analyze a poster, and discuss the characteristics of each forest layer. Students then draw a forest and label the...
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Forests
Fourth graders examine the impact forests have on our lives. They listen to the book "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein, and brainstorm about how forests are important to us. In small groups they create a poster illustrating how the...
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Looking at the Community Tree
Third graders review the characteristics of living and nonliving organisms. As a class, they observe a tree and describe the interactions between the living and nonliving organisms surrounding it. To end the lesson, they ask a question...
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Tree Cookie Combat
Fourth graders discover what trees need to live and grow in the environment. They realize that trees sometimes interact or compete with other organisms as well as each other. They identify the physical characteristics of Utah's...
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Science: Vocabulary Memory Game
Fourth graders increase their comprehension of science terms by playing a vocabulary matching game. In small groups, they take turns trying to match vocabulary terms with the correct definitions. Missed words are added to the students'...
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Icky Sticky and Itty Bitty
Students identify the letter i and the sound that it makes in various words and illustrations with the sound /i/. They practice writing the letter I both upper and lower case on paper. Finally, students circle the pictures with the...