MORE LESSONS FOR TEACHING ABOUT TREES

While surfing the Net for resources for this week's lesson plans, we came across a number of great teacher-created activities we felt you should know about. Click each lesson headline below to view that lesson. Approximate grade levels for each lesson are indicated in parentheses.

• Have You Ever Met a Tree? (PreK-3)
• Write a Tree Poem (Grades 4-8)
• Adopt A Tree (Grades K-4)
• Kids for Trees (Grades 3-8)
• A Close Encounter of the Tree Kind (Grades 4-8)
• Data-gathering Activity Relating to Trees in Their Environment (Grades 4-8)
• Lesson Plans for Forest-Minded Teachers (PreK-12)
• Branching Out: The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide (Grades 5-8)
• Living in a Tree (Grades 1-3)
• Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems -- Teacher's Guide (Grades 4-12)
• 30 Good Reasons for Trees (Grades 2-5)
• Celebrate Earth Day With The Lorax (Grades 1-3)
• Uses for Trees Crossword Puzzle (Grades 4-7)
• UNICEF Teachers Talking (Tree Lesson Ideas) (K-12)
• Tree Planting Lesson Plans (K-12)
• Activity Description of "Determining Transpiration from a Schoolyard Tree" (Grades 6-12)
• Making a Clinometer (to Measure the Height of Trees) (Grades 4-12) (archived version)
• Teacher CyberGuide: The Great Kapok Tree (Grades 2-4) (archived version)
• Teacher Views: The Great Kapok Tree (Grades 2-4) (archived version)
• Terrific Trees Unit Plan (Grades 1-3) (archived version)
• My Adopt-a-Tree Notebook (Grades 1-3) (archived version)
• Hug a Tree (Grades 1-4) (archived version)
• Athabascan Birch Bark Basket/Make Your Own Birch Bark (Grades 3-6) (archived version)

Originally published 04/18/2003
Last updated 02/17/2010