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Provided by: The Nature Conservancy |Published on: August 7, 2025
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Synopsis
In this resource from Nature Lab by The Nature Conservancy, students will understand how deforestation impacts the environment and how replanting trees can help sequester carbon.
Students will hear from scientists, participate in a Socratic seminar, and measure trees outside to determine their sequestration power.
The Socratic seminar activity is an exercise in perspective-taking that will benefit students.
Students will enjoy getting out in nature to identify and measure trees.
Prerequisites
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Differentiation & Implementation
To make connections to language arts, students can analyze the word parts in reforestation and deforestation to determine their meanings.
Many of the protocols in this lesson, such as the method for ensuring student participation in discussion and clock buddies, can be introduced and continued as regular, established procedures.
For the tree identification activity, students can use this resource.
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world.
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