Science Kits: 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