Tree Cookie

The Tree Cookie Kit was designed to aid you in educating students about the history tree “cookies” can reveal through their growth rings.

Activities:

Back in Time – Grade 4-6. Tree rings tell a story about the history of a tree including the good times and the bad. Students will examine tree cookies to investigate these historical events.

Educational Tools:

• 5 large tree cookie cross-sections
• Tree rings natural Collections kit
• Tree cookie kit (various species)

Books and literature:

• Conservation Trees
• What Tree is That?
• Keep a Great Thing Growing America
• Why Plant Trees?
• Benefits of Trees
• How to select and plant a tree (Tree City USA Bulletin)
• The Right Tree in the Right Place
• Trees Are the Answer…
• The Life of the Forest
• 3 posters