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Meet a Tree

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students observe trees through touch, smell, and finally through sight with this interactive lesson plan.

Olympic National Park

The Key to the Tree

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will connect their neighborhood or outdoor space to the National Parks by identifying specific types of trees.

Glacier National Park

Tree Parts

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Class discussion of tree parts and their functions, then students construct small trees incorporating all the parts it will need to live.

National Park of American Samoa

I'm A Tree

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Most of the natural vegetation of American Samoa (present before the arrival of Polynesians about 3000 years ago) fits into the category of tropical rainforest. Tropical rainforests are found throughout the world in areas of warm climates and sufficient to plentiful year-round rainfall. The Samoan tropical rainforest originally extended from just inland of the shore up to the summits of the highest mountains.

Glacier National Park

Build A Tree

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will reinforce what they learned about the different parts of a tree and the role each part plays in the growth of a tree, using role-playing theater.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Among the Trees

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore a forest ecosystem to discover which organisms live here. Search for producers, consumers, and decomposers and learn how they are all connected.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Family Tree

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will be able to depict relationships between individuals in a work of art.

Mammoth Cave National Park

Tasty Trees

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson plan is from "Making Connections: A Curriculum Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park, GrK-3", which comprises ten lessons. This is lesson 5 of that set.

Tree Rings

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson students will learn about tree rings and how archaeologists use them to help date sites and artifacts. What are tree rings? How are tree rings used to determine the age of archaeological sites? Students will... ●Understand how trees grow and why growth rings are formed. ●Describe how climate and weather affects the growth of tree rings. ●Explain the age of a tree by its rings. ●Understand how ring patterns can be used to determine the age of archaeological sites.

Glacier National Park

Trees: The Inside Story

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students discuss and learn about how different parts of a tree functions

National Park of American Samoa

Our Treasured Trees

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Trees are wonderful, beautiful organisms which comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, smells, and textures. Tropical rainforest contain the greatest diversity of plants in the world, meaning many species of plants grow in a small area. New terms would be introduced, “natural resources” and “renewable resources” Students will view images from slide presentation to help simplify the differences between the two new terms introduced.

Nurse Trees and Saguaros

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

To introduce the important relationship between nurse trees and saguaros, while learning about percentage and how to create several graphs using Excel.

Glacier National Park

Know Your Trees

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will review the parts of a tree and use dichotomous keys to practice identifying tree species that live in Glacier National Park.

Keys Ranch: Where Time Stood Still

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The lesson could be used in U.S. history, social studies, and geography courses in units on western expansion and settlement, or desert environments. It also could be used in an American Literature course in a unit on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, particularly his concept of self-reliance. The lesson will help students understand why desert regions were among the last areas settled under the Homestead Act and how settlers in these places survived in a remote environment.

Glacier National Park

Up the Down Tree House

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students learn about the process of decomposition and the food web through role play.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Family Tree of Student's Life

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In class, Instructor will lead a discussion in what is a "family tree". Teacher will model by sharing their individual family tree using one of the tree options and the ovals. Analyze the lifestyle of your ancestors in comparison to yours today. Students will complete a family or household tree at home. Students will write one paragraph (on the blank side of the page) explaining why they chose that particular tree design to populate.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

National Parks: Where Plants Hold a Place of Honor! Grades 2-3

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This lesson plan, designed for grades 2 and 3 uses common core and ngss standards to teach students that some National Parks were established to protect specific plant species. In doing so, students will learn the importance of plants within their ecosystems.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

TREE Teacher Backpacks (Self-Guided)

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The TREE (Teacher's Resources for Environmental Education) Backpacks program is a self-guided interactive field trip that allows students to explore the outdoors of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Flora on the Plains: Grasses, Trees, and Agriculture

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Follow alongside a trading caravan with Josiah Gregg to observe how plant life contributed to and threatened survival in the southern Great Plains. Consider how human impact and responsible management of natural resources was necessary during the fur trade era just as it is today.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

The Boundary Oak: From Seed to Tree

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Identify the life cycle of a tree, the importance of trees, and the significance of the Boundary Oak at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Park. Meets Kentucky Kindergarten science standards. This lesson was created by Kentucky teachers as a part of the History and Science Explore Project.