Trees and Global Change

Level: Grades 3-5
Includes:

• Video: Exploring the High Frontier a rainforest exploration video, produced by National Geographic (50:00 min.)

• Video: Our Global Greenhouse: (14:00 min.)

• Video: Amazonia (23:00 min.) and Understanding Forest Decline: (13:00 min.)

• Book: Trees by Theresa Greenaway, A Dorling Kindersley Book, 1995, information on different trees from different habitats, classifications, and projects

• Information and activities on reforestation in the tropics to Ranger Rick’s Nature Scope article “Problems and Solutions”

• Various articles from The San Francisco Chronicle , Nature Conservancy Magazine and Greenpeace Magazine on trees and their effect on climate change, wildlife, and human life