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Please let us know about suggestions, corrections, resources, etc. To join, contact: kphilli2@schools.nyc.gov Hillary's unit includes links to other resources. 4 Class Periods Image by Dr. Seuss Technology Integrated Lessons P. Nieto's adaptation of H. Aleshin's lesson for intermediate ESL students

Random House website - Seussville. [|The Lorax Project in the Classroom - Discussion Questions, Plan, Share, Resources]
[|Seussville The Lorax Games] Images of Briarwood Trees. Taken October - November, 2010 by K. Phillips, and students in Classes 717 and 723.

Combining Fiction and Non-Fiction, the units below include //The Lorax// and non-fiction reading on trees.
Karen has a Quick Time movie with music and trees of Briarwood. I have e-mailed a link, or you can access it at: http://www.filedropper.com/treesintheurbanenvironment

To differentiate this mini-unit, selected students can do research on trees, identifying trees around the school, using the leaves and bark. See Hillary Aleshin's //The Lorax// unit above, Ms. Shyam's Ecosystems mini-unit, and at "Literacy - The Giving Tree," see Renee Melendez' Giving Tree Unit and Perla Bautista's Giving Tree unit for research work.

Powerpoint of Days 1-3 of Trees, //The Lorax,// and Achieve 3000. **Agenda – Trees in the Urban Environment** **Day 1** •Warm Up/Motivation - **Watch movie on trees of Briarwood (Ask Karen can send this to you via transferbigfiles.com.** •**Read quotes, write, share out**  •**Devise Big Ideas and Essential Questions, based upon wonderings and thoughts on quotes.**  **There is more information on trees in NYC and what we can do in the handbook below:**

**Day 2**

•**Read Dr. Seuss' //The Lorax.//** •**//Use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the Onceler's attitudes about and use of trees with yours.//** **//Work Sheets Writing Matters: //** • Shared Reading. **Read MillionTreesNYC quote about what we can do.** · **Students go back and revise graphic organizer.**

**Alternative reading: //The Giving Tree. See Literacy-The Giving Tree//**

**Day 3** •**Read Achieve 3000 article, “Do Trees Help or Hurt?” or article, "Does Nature Need Our Help?"** •**Complete activity, thought question, and poll.** •**Extended Learning – Watch video about Urban Ecology and what students are doing in class. [|Middle School Students As Arborists] You have to register at VITAL PBS, or get movie from Karen.** **Day 4** •**Using your responses to quotes, the graphic organizers, work in groups and construct a presentation on trees.**

•**Day 5** •**Presentations with rubric.**

The Lorax – Geography Learning Objectives http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/iga/Geographers%20Have%20High%20Standards/The%20Lorax.htm Lesson with Group Work http://www.teacherweb.com/TN/WestValleyMiddle/TheLorax/index.html Kids Do Ecology - http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids/index.html National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis - http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ Environmental Defense Fund http://www.edf.org/