This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create...

This is is a one-stop, grade-specific site highlighting WV College- and Career-Readiness Standards and resources that are essential to the classroom teacher. The resources include grade-specific lessons, professional learning, and...

Find out the ecological benefits of filling a backyard habitat with trees.

This site provides the complete etext for the Charles Dickens story, The Holly Tree.

An interesting discussion of energy forestry, where a fast-growing species of tree or woody shrub is grown specifically to provide biomass or biofuel for heating or power generation. Explains some benefits and problems with this industry.

A good project to link math skills with ecology. Hands-on activies help students understand the role of trees in ecosystems.

In this task, students must estimate the number of leaves on a large tree, taking into account various complex factors such as the area shaded by the tree, the area of irregularly shaped leaves, the uneven distribution of leaves, the...

This is a mathematical modeling task aimed at making a reasonable estimate for something which is too large to count accurately, the number of leaves on a tree, taking into account the tree size and the density of the leaves. Aligns with...

A scanned copy of the 1852 publication Little Willie and the Apple Tree by Harriet Doyley Howe, an educational book for children.

Celebrate a universal symbol of life, the tree, represented by different forms of visual art at this virtual exhibition.

Interactive family tree of ancient Japanese gods and goddesses with descriptions and images.

This is a set of lessons where young scholars investigate tree rings and what scientists can learn from them. They measure tree rings and correlate the data to precipitation patterns in order to make predictions about the climate. For an...

A Scottish conservation charity dedicated to the regeneration and restoration of the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland.

Decision trees are used for both classification and regression problems, this story we talk about classification.

This exhibition tells the stories of the CCC's administration and controversial policies, the men who joined, and the contributions its projects made to the history of conservation in the United States.

The home range of a Red Tree Vole may consist of just one tree, usually a large old Douglas-fir, where the vole builds its nest, eats the needles, and gets water by licking dew drops from the needles. Nests have been found more than 50 m...

Read the short story "The Tree" by American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft.

This lesson plan has students creating a model to find the total number of combinations that can be made from groups of objects. Using a model helps students develop a conceptual understanding of multiplication.

Let's make some energy! Check out this wind turbine that NewWind has developed for creating small-scale sources of energy.

Find out how to provide the proper amount of water for optimal growth and biodiversity in a backyard habitat.

In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read about an exotic bug and integrate qualitative and quantitative information through close reading and viewing of diagrams.

Article on pine tree. Covers classification, physical features, ecology, and ways pine is used by humans. (Published: May 31, 2012)

A detailed website that explains the history and process of classifying animals using evolutionary, molecular, and physical characteristics relationships. Website also contains information on evolution and evolutionary processes....

In this seventh unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn how to talk about their families, compare Latino family values to their own, discuss the Spanish royal family, create a family tree, recite a rhyme, and learn about...