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Family Activity: Trees in Trouble

Examine neighborhood trees for signs of poor health and then investigate actions to help trees in trouble.

Observe, collect, and classify plant seeds.

Investigate changes in your community over time.

Take a closer look at trees and discover their individual parts.

Take a “shrew’s-eye-view” of life in the woods and uncover the diversity in the forest.

Take a closer look at pollution: what it is, what its sources are, and what people can do to reduce it.

Deepen awareness of individual trees over time and develop a greater understanding of the environment.

Learn about the different plant parts we eat.

Uncover the conditions trees need to survive, live, and grow and learn how trees compete for resources.

Touch, smell, see, hear, and taste winter using this activity.