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"Uses
of a Tree" Lesson Plan
Keywords: trees,
wood, paper, sap, and food
Prepared by: JoAnne Venturino, first grade teacher, Our Lady
of Victory School, State College, Pa.,
Grade Levels: first and second grade
Time Required: 45 minutes
Setting: classroom
Subject: science, reading comprehension
Topic: things that come from trees
Goals for the Lesson
- Students will identify
the relationship of tree resources in a word sort.
- Students will prioritize
information from the word sort and the book by making a hierarchical
map.
Materials Needed
- Be a Friend to
Trees by Patricia Lauber
- One set
of word sort cards /group on card stock
- A teacher set of word
sort cards on 3 x 5 index cards
- A large brown tree
cutout with the title "Things That Come from a Tree"
written on the trunk
State Standards Addressed:
(4.2.4B) E&E Standards, Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
Procedure
- Divide the class into
groups of three and pass out a set of word cards to each group.
Tell the children to look at the cards. Discuss what the cards
have in common. They are words related to trees! What would
we do without trees? Explain that the word cards are related to
products that come from trees and that each group will use the
word cards to make four categories.
- Give the groups 3-5
minutes to sort the words, deciding on the categories and the
words that belong in each category. The teacher is to observe
and ask how students know that a card belongs in a particular
category.
- Read the book Be
a Friend to Trees. While the teacher is reading, students
may adjust and move their words around. "Did anyone make
changes? Why?"
- Using the teacher's
set of word cards, the class will make a hierarchical map to show
"Things That Come from a Tree." Use a large outline
of a tree, with four main branches and smaller branches coming
out from each of the main branches. Put the title on the trunk.
Have students decide on the four categories and place each category
card on one of the four main branches. Add the other cards to
the appropriate branches.
Evaluation
Group word sorts should
match the words and categories on the hierarchical tree map. Read
and review what we get from a tree. Children should be able to conclude
that we need trees and that we need to take good care of them.
Reference
Lauber, Patricia (1994).
Be a Friend to Trees. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins.
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