Trees are very important parts of our everyday lives. They give us clean air to breathe, food to eat, wood to build with, paper to write on, and many other things. There thousands of unique kinds of trees growing on our earth. Can you identify a tree just by looking at it? Tree identification is when a person uses the physical traits of a tree (such as height or leaf shape) as clues to figure out what type of tree it is. This webquest will teach you how to identify trees.
You will work in groups of three. Each group will work cooperatively to gather information about trees and tree identification from the internet. Each group will organize the information by taking notes, writing paragraphs and drawing pictures. We will use what we learn on the internet to identify the trees in our own playground. At the end of the webquest, we will work together as a class to make a map of the playground, labeling all of the trees that we have identified.
