Activities for Forestry Integrated Unit

One of the activities that I can apply to my integrated unit on forestry from Melber & Hunter's Integrating Language Arts and Social Studies is learning history through field trips.  I can convert this activity into a mini-activity for the students to do on the school campus.  As a class they can take a field trip around the school yard looking at the various trees and flowers and determine their type, age and growth.  The students will be able to take the knowledge they have learned throughout the entire unit in order to determine how old a tree is based on the growth, rings, etc.  Students will be able to formulate questions and record their observations throughout their entire walk.  TSW be able to take notes but also draw visual representations of what they see, and take photos to help build their journal pages.  I would like to have the students stop and write in their journal at each various tree they looked at and learned about.