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Tree Growth Study—Super Value Kit

By: The Flinn Staff

Tree Growth Study Activity Kit for Biology and Life Science
tree rings, tree rounds, tree growth, age
Tree Growth Study Activity Kit for Biology and Life Science
tree rings, tree rounds, tree growth, age
Item #: FB1784 

Price: FREE

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Tree Growth Study Activity Kit for biology and life science comes complete with 5 sets of three different types of tree round samples and provides the opportunity to unlock environmental trends of the past.

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Trees contain some of nature’s most accurate records of the past. Students will unlock these historical mysteries and uncover environmental trends of the past by studying actual tree round samples. The differences between hardwood and softwood trees, good years of tree growth versus poor years and the ages of the trees will be determined. Complete with 5 sets of three different types of tree round samples—15 samples in all—detailed student and teacher notes and all other required materials.

Super Value Kit is complete for 15 student groups. All materials are reusable.

Specifications

Materials Included in Kit: 
Magnifier, plastic, dual lens, 15
Push pins, multicolored, pkg/100
Round tree samples, 3 types, 5
Ruler, metric, 15 cm, white, 5


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)†

Science & Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems
Analyzing and interpreting data

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
HS-LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Cause and effect
Structure and function

Performance Expectations

MS-LS4-2: Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
HS-LS4-1: Communicate scientific information that common ancestry and biological evolution are supported by multiple lines of empirical evidence.