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Celebration of Trees

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Second graders listen to various, grade appropriate stories about trees. They create their own construction paper trees and discuss the importance of trees to the ecosystem and the importance of taking care of them. Finally, 2nd graders then "adopt

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literature, trees

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literature, parts of trees, trees, science
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Grade
2nd
Subjects
Science
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Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Project-Based Learning
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