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To Be a Tree
Students create a model tree costume, which helps them gain a deeper understanding of the form and function of the basic tree parts. This activity serves as an initial exploration into tree growth and provides a foundation for more observations.
The Closer You Look
Students observe trees and collect data about them. They then draw a picture of a tree and compare and contrast it to the one they drew in the Engage: Picture a Tree activity.
Environmental Quality Investigation
Students investigate areas where improvements can be made in indoor air quality, transportation, chemical use, and more.
Energy Investigation
Students investigate how much energy their school uses, the main sources of that energy, and ways to implement energy-saving strategies.
Teaching with i-Tree
Three hands-on activities that help middle and high school students discover and analyze the many ecosystem services that trees provide. Students use the i-Tree tool to analyze data they collected about the trees in their community.
Learn About Forests: Web of Life
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. By creating a physical web, learners model the interconnectedness of organisms in an ecosystem.
Learn About Forests: Tree Cookies
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners examine cross-sections of trees and infer from a tree’s growth rings.
Learn About Forests
Engage middle school-aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and sustainable forest management with these free ready-to-use activities to engage youth in learning about sustainable forest management.
Focus on Forests
Students examine ecological systems of a forest; analyze interdependencies within a forest ecosystem; and explore factors, like fire, that shape the development of forests.
Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live
Through eight hands-on activities, students explore current and future community environmental issues.
Burning Issues
Students graph changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) over the course of several decades and identify possible reasons for those changes. They also explore the relationship among CO2, the Earth’s climate, and wildland fires.
Helping Hands
Students plan and, if possible, carry out a service-learning project that focuses on making positive environmental changes in their community.
Waste & Recycling Investigation
Students investigate how much waste your school generates and where it goes, as well as recycling and composting efforts.
School Site Investigation
Students assess their school grounds on the basis of various criteria. Using the data collected from the Investigation, students can develop action projects to improve the school site to make it a more sustainable, healthier, and safer environment.