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Mountain Pine Beetle
Students identify the different parts of a tree. In this biology lesson, students investigate how mountain pine beetles kill trees. They examine the beetles' anatomy using a microscope.
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How Does a Tree Grow?
Eighth graders learn about the life of a tree. In this tree growth lesson, 8th graders discuss and dramatize the life of a tree from seed to trunk. There are no
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Tree-Mendous!
Students classify trees. In this tree-mendous lesson, students categorize a variety of trees to assist them in playing a Jeopardy like game. Students identify new vocabulary terms and classify the uses and benefits of trees for humans.
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School Forest Lesson- Looking at Literature
Students compare what they learned though literature to the school forest. In this environment lesson, students visit the forest surrounding their school to listen to literature and identify objects in nature. Students create a display...
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Our Friends the Trees
Learners build an animal habitat. In this animal habitats lesson, students create dead-wood habitats and observe the habitat over a period of weeks.
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Tree Identification
For 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
For 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!
Students research tree leaves. In this tree leaves lesson, students observe, measure, and sort tree leaves. Students examine leaves individually, in groups, and in relationship to the entire tree.
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Arbor Day Missing Letter Spelling Worksheet
In this Arbor Day spelling worksheet, students fill in the missing letter in ten words that pertain to trees and the celebration of Arbor Day.
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Arbor Day Alphabetic Order Worksheet
In this Arbor Day vocabulary activity, students analyze ten words in a list that pertain to trees and Arbor Day. Students alphabetize the words. Note: The word "prairie" appears twice in the list. The title is spelled wrong.
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Trees and Their Parts
Learners research trees and their parts. In this forestry lesson, 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
Young scholars 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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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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Adopt-A-Tree Certificate
For 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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Tree
In this handwriting activity, 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 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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Peeled Trees Tell The Story
Students investigate the diversity of life that is found in Montana. They research some of the different interactions that organisms have with their environment. The lesson includes an extensive introduction for teacher information....
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So -- What's Happening Here? On this Old Christmas Tree Farm
Learners take a field trip to an old Christmas tree farm near their school. In groups, they gather data at the site and analyze the data in an attempt to discover what happened to the area. They identify human activities that led to the...
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Mancos River Walk Newsletters
Sixth graders create newsletters of the Mancos River Walk. They gather information from the Mancos River Walk and create a newsletter detailing sections of trees, shrubs, river studies, and wildlife studies. They write stories and...