Branches of Our Forests

You'll find everything but the kitchen sink here ... or just a carbon sink. In the activity, pairs or groups of middle school learners go outside and measure a tree's circumference and height to estimate its carbon storage potential and...

In this organisms and their environment activity, students will review concepts relating to ecological studies, levels of organization in ecology, and relationships between organisms in ecosystems. This activity has 10 fill in the blank,...

In this season worksheet, students read facts about winter and find 20 homophones. Students also correct the errors in the sentences.

Are wildfires necessary for some forests? Get the answer to this burning question with a short video that examines the role of fire in forest growth and health.

Students review Excel and how to create graphs with this program. They create two graphs in Excel, one showing the average number of woolly adelgid egg sacks on the outer 15 cm of hemlock branch at sites sorted by latitude, then one...

Young scholars wood chip and water trees.

Hidden hundreds of feet above the ground in the redwoods of Northern California is a whole world that was just waiting to be discovered. This video tells the story of Stephen Sillett who, inspired by his grandmother, set out to explore...

Students explore nature by creating a model rainforest in class. In this rainforest research lesson, students utilize arts and crafts to recreate a scene of the rainforest including a monkey, trees, shrubbery and other animals. Students...

Students explore energy by completing an electricity worksheet. In this conductors activity, students define the energy related vocabulary terms circuit, electronics, conductor and semi-conductor before examining computer chips in class....