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Adopt A Tree
Barbara Lerman-Golomb
babsink@aol.com
Source: Team Up for the Trees, an Earth Force Publication
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Adopt A Tree At-a-Glance
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The more you know about a tree, the more you can help it!
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Early Childhood
Ages 5-7
Ages 8-10
Ages 11-13
Ages 14-17 (High School)
Ages 18-21 (College)
Adults
Family/Community
Seniors
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Community Center
Hillel
Outdoors (Camp)
Outdoors (Park/Wilderness)
Outdoors (Urban/Suburban)
Religious/Day School
Synagogue
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Game/Hike/Outdoor Activity
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| Issues:
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Air/Water/Trees
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| Holiday:
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Tu B'Shevat (New Year of the Trees)
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Description
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Adopting a tree means to take a special interest in it. Your care for a young or sick tree may help nurse it to a fuller life. Here's how:
1. Pick a tree in your yard, neighborhood, or nearby park and adopt it. You may want to look for a tree that needs special attention or care. Alternatively, you may choose a tree with special aesthetics like gnarls or an especially old and large tree.
2. Find out what kind of tree it is by checking a tree guide or asking a tree specialist.
3. Start a tree journal - Sketch a picture or take a photo of your tree
- Collect needles, leaves, flowers, fruit, nuts or fallen tree bark (do not peel bark off trees!) from your tree.
- Create a leaf rubbing! Place a piece of paper over a leaf, and rub the sides of a pencil against the paper.
- Visit your tree at least once a week and record your observations (wildlife in and around the tree, leaves changing color, new leaves, broken branches, etc.)
- Use the Measure a Tree activity to find out factual information about your tree.
4. Share what you have learned. Make a plaque to place at the tree with information about the trees buds, leaves, seeds, and how old it is. Get your friends to adopt and care for a tree, too!
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Benchmarks
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Oberservaton skills. Develop a personal connection to a piece of the natural world.
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Comments
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This program added on 2002-12-24.
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