Lesson Plan
Meet A Tree
Procedure:(after you have looked through the information booklet and at the poster)
1. Locate the following words in your glossary and check them off.
| bark | heartwood | photosynthesis |
| cambium | phloem | sapwood |
| environment | | |
2. Take turns in your group to read the information booklet out loud. As you read fill in the worksheet. (The questions are in order as the information appears in the booklet. The coloring will occur on the last sheet of the booklet and should be done last.)
Extensions
Students could perform an experiment with celery placed in colored water (use food coloring) to see what happens over time. They could then relate what they observe to what they have learned about trees transporting food to their leaves.
Closure
Look at a tree cookie and try to identify the layers.
How old is the tree?
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Amanda Danby, Cameron Schmidt, and Michael Spann.
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