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Why Monitor Your Schoolyard?It is important for students to address consequences of climate change for populations and dynamics of forest processes. We provide methods for tree data collection to help predict global climate change on forest ecosystem processes. Schoolyards provide a forest ecosystem often under the stress of urban influences. It is important to monitor these unique forests to help students learn to:
How to inventory your schoolyard ACER has developed a comprehensive manual outlining in detail how to monitor and inventory trees in your schoolyard, nearby ravine or boulevard. The manual is available to teachers after taking the OSY Summer Institute August 18, 19, 20 at Appleby College. The following is a summary of what you will find in our program: Mapping Educators instruct students to locate, measure and label the features of their school property accurately. Through scaling activity students will learn about scale and how scale tells you about distance for the map. Start at the NW corner of the school property and spiral in. This is done to get an idea of the shape of the property, the location of its features, the names and locations of the trees and how tree numbering should go. Monitoring the Trees Students should work cooperatively to accurately measure the specified features of the trees on the school property using GPS units, clinometers, diameter tape and measuring tape. Students then record the tree measurements and location to the correct decimal places and unit’s measure and record it into a table. Example of data sheet:
Curriculum Comparisons for Grades 4-8 and Grades 9-12 can be downloaded for your perusal. |
Quicklinks to Our School Yard Why Monitor Your Schoolyard? |
