Curated OER
Raven Chapter 35 Guided Notes: Plant Form
The ups and downs of plant vascular tissue are described by your beginning botanists as they complete this worksheet. Xylem and phloem are defined and identified on actual color photographs. Functions of the different types of meristem...
Curated OER
Tree Cookies!
"Tree Cookies!" is a delicious little presentation designed to introduce upper elementary or middle school botanists to the anatomy of a tree trunk. The cambium, phloem, xylem, and other vital structures are identified and defined. Two...
Curated OER
Tree Cookies
Students identify heartwood, sapwood, and a tree's annual rings, infer from a tree's rings what damage or stress might have occurred in its life, and make a time-line of human history that coincides with a tree's rings.
Curated OER
History of a Cookie
Learners examine tree rings and then research an event for each growth ring. In this history lesson students design a timeline and research topics using books and the Internet.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Maple Syrup Time Activities
These hands-on activities teach students about the many uses of maple trees.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Woody Plants
This advanced level essay is a concise review of the structure of woody stems and roots. Good illustrations help make the text understandable.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: My Life as a Tree
This lesson plan introduces students to three parts of a tree and how they function. Extensions can be easily added such as studying the tree rings for evidence of disease, fire, and other detrimental effects on a tree.