When students are through collecting data and are back in the classroom they will need to organize their data. Have students identify how each plant and animal they observed benefits from the tree and how it affects the tree. Students may need to do more research or observe their tree some more. Students should put their findings in charts, tables, or graphs. The teacher can record each student s or group s findings on the board, and set up tables or graphs to summarize the entire classes findings.
Closure Bring the class together on the floor with their organized data and conclusions.
These questions will help students to use their processed data so they can see why they collected it and processed in such a way that it made it easy to answer the questions. Evaluation Student assessment will be performance-based and will be just observation on the teacher s part. Students will be given a rating of excellent, good, and O.K., and will be aware of how they will be graded before the activity begins. Excellent Student keeps on task and is not found playing around outside. Their observations are complete and they have organized their data in a systematic way.