Forests and Soils Box
You will find the following educational props and information that will enhance your forest learning experience:
Scaling Stick (on outside of box) for measuring tree diameters
Wood use posters
Tree seed and leaf bingo forms
2 soil thermometers
2 Va DOF tree ID pocket manuals
Dept. of Conservation pamphlets on soils
Flagging
Tree "cookies" small and large - disks cut from tree boles that allow you to count rings for aging and look at ring size to describe growth
A Close Look at Tree Cookies
"Every Tree for Itself" activity set: a bag of colored popsicle sticks, with green representing nutrients, blue/purple representing water and yellow representing sunlight. Kids are trees fighting over the nutrients. See what they get and if the get too much of one or not enough of another. Instructions included.
SOLs that correlate to this activity box include: Sci 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8
An Example Guideline
(coming soon)
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