Lesson Plan

Ucar: Dendrochronology Trees: Recorders of Climate Change

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Students discover how tree age can be determined by studying the rings, and how ring thickness can be used to deduce times of optimal growing conditions. Then they investigate simulated tree rings applying the scientific method to explore how climatic conditions varied during the Little Ice Age.

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