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Monitor My Maple Teacher Activity Guide

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Maple leaves
Description

This guide gives information for teachers on how to incorporate the Nature Up North "Monitor My Maple" citizen science project into classroom activities.  Not a lesson plan per se, the guide gives basic instruction on how to collect accurate measurements of maple trees and enter data for the project, and also gives suggestions of how to implment the project in classrooms for different ages of students.  

Data sheets for both spring and fall Maple Monitoring are also available for download here.  

Grade level
5-8
9-12
Post-secondary
Resource Type
Teacher Activity Guide
Subject(s)
Living Environment
Science
ELA
Math