DNR: Learn more about Indiana Arbor Day - 1 views
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Lori Jones on 20 Feb 12Differentiation: planting trees is a universal activity that would build community within the classroom and within the school. Gifted students could make models of what "trees" are used for to assist human beings.
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From the DNR / State of Indiana, this website provides many links to educational programs offered by DNR and our State Forestries. In particular, I like the free tree seedlings for Indiana third graders. I could see this one "gift" developing into a unit on conservation of resources. Specifically, standard 3.2.6: Describe how the properties of earth materials make them useful to humans in different ways. Describe ways that humans have altered these resources to meet their needs for survival. We could discuss the lumber industry, and how it benefits human-kind. Moving on from there, we can discuss how to replenish the supply.