“Tree Educational Materials” for Schools, Businesses, Community Groups, and Organizations on available to Loan from Cambridge Tree Project

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These materials are available to teachers of Cambridge School System, Afterschool programs, Community Schools, private schools in Cambridge and also organizations and businesses. The items marked * can be borrowed from The Teacher Resource Center by staff who work at public schools. Items marked (#)are available at Cambridge Public Library. If you wish to use these materials with Cambridge people and don’t work at a school, contact Karen Carmean at 547-1413

*(#)Cambridge Street Trees. Written by 7&8th graders of Graham &Parks. Laura Sylvan teacher. Len Solo, Principal, Melanie Baron, Science Coordinator. Class set available.

*Grow Your Own Tree. National Arbor Day Foundation. Kit for 2nd Grade, lower elementary age.
 Special Things About Trees and Tree Magic. 14 min VHS
 Special Things About Trees Poster
 Arbor Day poems
 Planting packet and materials for growing Thornless Honeylocust trees.

*Trees are Terrific! Tree Sleuth Unit Upper elementary curriculum
 Be a Tree Sleuth: 22 min VHS videotape and Teacher’s Guide
  26 copies of ‘What tree is that?” booklets for class use
  Poster on what to look for in tree identification
  Filmstrip and audiocassette for principles of taxonomy and tree identification
  Classification group work and  Different methods of collecting samples
  Tree Diversity and  Right tree for the right place

*Arbor Day: Celebration of Stewardship. Upper Elementary Curriculum
 Teacher’s guide for Science and Social Studies curriculum
 Audiotape: “Time Warp Show”  and   “The Tree Planter”
 Environmental game: weave a food web
 Poster on interdependence of living things, benefits of trees planting
 Arbor Day play and poems and ideas

*Discovery Curriculum: Middle School students, in or out of classroom
 200 pages of information, introduction and assessment activities,
 Hands-on learning investigations, extensive bibliography
*“Nine Things You Should Know about Caring for Trees”  poster copies for each school
Earth Day to Arbor Day   Planning Guide, Poster, audiocassette tape – second copy of  Time Warp Show and The Tree Planter: audiotape & Street Tree Inventory

Tree Educational Materials for Businesses, Community Groups, and Organizations

(#)*Tree City USA Bulletins. Multiple copies available for groups to use from Cambridge Tree Project. Single from Cambridge Public Library and Teacher Resource Center
“Resolving Tree-Sidewalk Conflicts” Bulletin 3
“The Right Tree for the Right Place” #4
“Living with Urban Soils” #5
“How to Hire an Arborist” #6
“How to Save Trees During Construction” #7
“How to Write a Municipal Tree Ordinance” #9
“Plant Trees for America” #10
“How to Prevent Tree/Sign Conflicts” #11
“How to Recognize and Prevent- Hazard Trees” #15
“How to Select and Plant a Tree” #19
“A Systematic Approach to Building with Trees” #20
“How Trees can Save Energy” #21
“How to Conduct a Street Tree Inventory” #23
“Trees and Parking Lots” #24
“How to Manage Community Natural Areas” #27
“Tree Protection Ordinances” #31

(#)*Trenching and Tunneling Near Trees: a field pocket guide available for free to utility, street and sidewalk construction companies and workers by Cambridge Tree Project:

(#)*Handbook for Tree Board Members:  administrative and management guide for an effective, successful urban forestry program.
For tree board members, City Councillors, neighborhood liaison representatives

Slide presentation for healthy relationship between trees and utility lines. Plant right tree in right place.  71 slides with script. For community and business planning. Outlines requirement for a utility interested in being designated as a Tree Line USA Utility

A Special Kind of Care: Urban Community Forestry  A videotape of how to take care of trees in urban areas.
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