Curated OER
Tree Cookies!
"Tree Cookies!" is a delicious little presentation designed to introduce upper elementary or middle school botanists to the anatomy of a tree trunk. The cambium, phloem, xylem, and other vital structures are identified and defined. Two...
Curated OER
Tree Cookies
Learners identify heartwood, sapwood, and a tree's annual rings, infer from a tree's rings what damage or stress might have occurred in its life, and make a time-line of human history that coincides with a tree's rings.
Curated OER
Tree Birthdays
Students investigate the growth of trees. In this tree growth lesson, students discover that trees make a ring each year they live. Students use new voabulary such as bark, phloem, and cambuim to talk about tree parts. Students create a...
Curated OER
Our Family Tree
Students investigate their family heritage and plot their timeline. In this research lesson students study their family tree and forestry.
Curated OER
Help Wanted!
For this plant part worksheet, students read the classified advertisements and match each of the plant parts to the job descriptions provided.
Curated OER
Flowering Plants
In this flowering plants worksheet, students compare the structure and function of a tree trunk and a leaf. This worksheet has 1 true or false and 5 fill in the blank questions.
Curated OER
History of a Cookie
Pupils examine tree rings and then research an event for each growth ring. In this history lesson students design a timeline and research topics using books and the Internet.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Maple Syrup Time Activities
These hands-on activities teach students about the many uses of maple trees.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Woody Plants
This advanced level essay is a concise review of the structure of woody stems and roots. Good illustrations help make the text understandable.