Using the Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy video!
This Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short non-fiction passage about pine, leafy, and rain forests, plus questions and an answer key. Great no-prep practice for main idea and key details.
Using the Going Green Song (MP3), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy song!
This tree cut outs activity is a tree-shaped book for kindergarten to 2nd grade. Children color the cover, draw a tree, write about it, and cut out the pages on the bold line.
Using Characters, Settings, and Big Events Worksheet, students draw pictures and write a sentence for each to tell about the story elements in a book.
This happy holidays national holidays activity has 1st-3rd grade students match picture clue cards to ten U.S. holidays and their dates. Answer key included for easy checking.
This The Catching Tree Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives third graders a non-fiction passage about how a wide tree catches what the wind carries, four multiple choice questions, and a written response. An answer key is included.
This Tree Swing Reading Comprehension Worksheet has 5th graders read a two-page science passage about building a safe swing, answer five questions, and check their thinking with the included answer key.
Using The Giving Tree Worksheet, students compare two characters from a story to determine how they are alike and different.
Plant a tree, grow a love of nature
Arbor Day is the holiday all about trees! In the United States, National Arbor Day falls on the last Friday in April, and it started in Nebraska in 1872 with a big idea: plant more trees. Kids learn why trees matter. They give us oxygen, shade, food, wood and homes for animals. Younger learners name the parts of a tree, like roots, trunk, branches and leaves, while older kids read about forests and how people can protect them. The click comes when a child looks at a tree outside and sees it as a living thing that helps all of us.
Trees are right outside the window, so we get kids looking, touching and caring.
Kids build a tree from cut-outs and label the roots, trunk, branches and leaves, telling what each part does. Building it piece by piece makes the parts and their jobs easy to remember.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withTree Cut OutsActivitiesOpen it →Read a short passage about forests, then ask three questions: Why do we need trees? What lives in a forest? How can we help? Partners answer out loud before writing. Talking first makes the answers stronger.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withForests Life Science Reading Comprehension WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Pick a tree outside and visit it once a week. Kids draw it, measure the shade, and notice changes through the seasons. Coming back again and again turns one holiday into a whole year of science.
Why it works: short practice spread over several days beats one long session, according to a large review of learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCharacters The Giving Tree WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Songs, stories and a little time outdoors.
VideosSing about caring for the Earth, then list one green habit each child can try this week.
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WorksheetsRead the book together and talk about everything the tree gave, then share what trees give us.
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AssessmentsRead a short tree story and answer questions about what happened.
Open Tree Swing Reading Comprehension Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet and Going Green Song (MP3).
National Arbor Day in the United States is on the last Friday in April. Some states celebrate on a different date that fits their best tree-planting season.
Arbor Day celebrates trees and encourages people to plant and care for them. It started in Nebraska in 1872, when over a million trees were planted on the first one.
Tell them it is a birthday party for trees! We celebrate everything trees give us, like clean air, shade and homes for animals, and we plant new trees for the future.
Plant a seed or a sapling, do leaf rubbings, read a tree story, label the parts of a tree, or take a nature walk to count different kinds of trees.
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