Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...

Lesson using the book The Giving Tree to learn about friendship and the Treetures website to learn about the importance of trees. In groups of four, students create posters about the connection between trees and people. (Note: Book...

The goal of this plant biology science fair project is to make and test an herbicide made from the leaves of the black walnut tree and investigate the toxicity of black walnut trees.

Canvas the neighborhood or school grounds to identify the quantity and types of trees found. Students will map out the area including all of the trees locations. Reviewing the map, students will determine whether areas may benefit from...

Have you ever looked at a tree and wondered just how long it had been standing there? The branches and the trunks of trees have unique rings inside them, which can be seen if you cut a transverse section of a tree. These rings appear as...

Using recycled paper and tape, students will build a redwood tree that is taller than you and that can stand on its own. The site includes the challenge, tips, lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...

A learning module that begins with the poem "Holly Trees" by Emma Bartley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...

Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.

Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.

Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.

Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.

Kids learn more about the science of trees. Towering plants that help our planet.

A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Trees Are a Threat" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...

A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Woman Shot Next to Her Christmas Tree" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...

Use site from Suzy's world, which is a personal site from Suzy Cato, in order to learn how plants and trees "eat." Content includes fun facts and great experiment.

A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Books Don't Grow on Trees" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....

Decorate a Christmas tree with addition facts. Use this lesson plan to review addition facts and have students make up addition problems of their own.

A poem from Rubert Brooke, "Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Bobby Allen and can access a printable version of this piece.

In the lab experiment site, you will determine the age of a tree, see if you can determine what years had more precipitation than others, and label the cross section of a tree: bark, heartwood, sapwood, and rings.

This lesson plan helps students distinguish between earned and unearned income by identifying methods for getting money.

Students learn the role of the executive branch in creating and carrying out laws and how the executive and legislative branches work together to create a new coin.

Read the story "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen, and test your comprehension by answering the ten multiple choice questions and two extended response questions that follow. Answers can be printed, emailed, or saved.

The full text of the short story "The First Christmas-Tree" by Henry Van Dyke. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

In this interactive site, students practice various skills including finding the total, odd and even numbers, making change, and fractions by helping a farmer pick and sell his oranges and olives.