Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide offers educators a wide variety of engaging, hands-on activities, organized into grade bands, K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 about trees and forests, wildlife, water, climate change, stewardship, and more.
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.
Tree species can be identified by looking at several different features: leaves, bark, twigs, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Even the overall shape of a tree can give clues to the tree’s identity.
By modeling the parts of a tree and creating a “tree factory,” students will learn about the structure of a tree.
Tree rings show patterns of change in the tree’s life, as well as changes in the area where it grows. Students will trace environmental and historical changes using a cross-section of a tree.
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading outreach events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners model how trees compete with each other for nutrients, sunlight, space, and water.
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners assess trees for signs of their health and recognize symptoms of unhealthy trees.
Even though students may be very familiar with trees, they may not have thought much about the actual structure of a tree. In this activity, your students will go outdoors or view pictures to take a closer look at trees and their parts.
