đŸ”¦Science Spotlight: Tales from the Trees
Trees act as living history books, adding new rings each year. Each tree ring is made of light-coloured earlywood from spring and early-summer growth, and the dark latewood from the late-summer and fall. Trees grow quickly if there is enough light, water, and at the right temperature. Good years of growth are marked by wider rings, whereas poorer years of growth have narrower rings.
Try This at Home:
You will need: yarn (light brown, dark brown, and black); scissors; paper; white glue; and markers.
1. Make a small circle of dark brown yarn in the middle of your background paper. This is the pith of your tree. Cut the yarn, and glue it to the background page.
2. Make a circle of light brown yarn around the dark brown pith in the middle of your paper and glue it to the page. Make a circle of dark brown around the light brown and glue it down.
3. One tree ring has a light ring and a dark ring. Alternate light brown and dark brown circles to make tree rings on your paper. If it was a good spring of growth, make more than one circle of light brown yarn.
4. FIRE! Not every fire kills a tree! Sometimes, only part of the tree is injured or killed. Use a short piece of black yarn to make your fire scar – this is the spot where the tree burned. Don’t worry, it survived this fire!
5. Finishing it off: Draw a circle in green around your tree cookie. This is the living part of the tree: the cambium. Use markers and dark brown yarn to make the bark of your tree. Bark is the outermost layer of a tree.
Read the full Science Spotlight from our GenAction partners, @twosedm: https://genaction.ca/en/science-spotlight/321
This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
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