"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...

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.

Young scholars investigate the growth of trees. In this tree growth instructional activity, students discover that trees make a ring each year they live. Young scholars use new voabulary such as bark, phloem, and cambuim to talk about...

Students investigate their family heritage and plot their timeline.  In this research lesson plan students study their family tree and forestry. 

In this plant part learning exercise, students read the classified advertisements and match each of the plant parts to the job descriptions provided.

For this flowering plants worksheet, high schoolers 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.

Students 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.