My Tree and Me
In this activity, children compare trees and identify distinguishing features.
Social Studies
Best Buds
In this activity, children explore twigs, buds, and tree flowers while they celebrate the coming of spring.
Evergreens in Winter
In this activity, children explore evergreen trees—and the season of winter—using their senses.
Fall for Trees
In this activity, children explore the signs of autumn and play with falling, changing, and dancing leaves.
Follow Your Nose
In this activity, children explore trees and tree parts using their senses of smell and taste.
Tree Textures
In this activity, children explore trees and their parts using the sense of touch.
Sounds Around
In this activity, children explore the sounds of nature and imitate them using their own voices and instruments that they make together.
The Shape of Things
In this activity, children search for the shapes and colors that define both our natural and built environments.
What’s in a Label?
Students explore the environmental, social, and economic criteria of forest certification and consider possible benefits and limitations of certification for both forests and people.
The Global Climate
Using data collected from Mauna Loa, students graph changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the course of several decades and identify possible reasons for those changes.