The mural can be displayed at a Science Fair, Open House, or other appropriate gathering as a community action project. In the lesson students will return to their adopted watershed to collect new data on the site where they planted trees in an earlier grade level. If students have not planted trees, they will plant trees and collect their first data in this study. The follow-up lesson, Comparing Tree Data , gives students a chance to make simple comparisons and draw some conclusions about changes in their watershed. The lesson includes a scavenger hunt in the classroom for things made from wood and an activity which introduces students to the products we get from trees and how they are made.
Students also look at the benefits of live trees in their community.
In a follow-up activity, students make their own paper, which helps them see how easy it is to recycle paper. In Importance of Trees Mural students make a mural from magazine clippings which depict a variety of tree uses. The mural can be displayed at a Science Fair, Open House, or other appropriate gathering as a community action project. Living things have characteristics and structures which enable them to live and interact in different environments. Living things have basic needs and structures to meet those needs.