Trees are Terrific...Inside and Out!

The Delaware Forest Service invites all public and private schools, grades K-5 to participate in the

2015 Arbor Day Poster Contest and Annual Free Seedling Giveway.

This year’s theme, Trees are Terrific…Inside and Out! is designed to increase knowledge about trees' structural components and learn how these components help a tree function. This is a great tie in for science units K-5. The poster contest is annual way for your students to learn more abou the role of trees in our communities and their direct impact on Delaware's health and well being. Your schoolyard is a perfect setting to incorporate the role of urban trees into your everyday curriculum. After all, community trees are working trees. These trees not only provide beauty, shade our streets and schoolyards, create habitat and food for wildlife; they also improve air quality, muffle nosie, moderate air temperatures, filter runof into streams and rivers, and reduce energy consumption.

The Arbor Day Poster Contest and the oppurtunty to plant your own pine seedlings is a great extension of this lesson. Use this link to register your class for particpation in the contest and to reserve your seedlings for delivery in April.

Please register by classroom and only select ONE ticket to do so. Later in the registration process you will be asked for your student count for seedlings.

The complete Poster guidelines and rules can be found HERE.

Lesson plan and activity guide can be found HERE.

If you are interested in programs that are designed to increase TEACHER knowledge in trees and roles of community trees and for grant oppurtunities to make your school more "green," visit www.plt.org

Posters are due by March 27th, 2015

EXTENDED TO APRIL 16TH!!!!!

Seedlings will be delivered around the third week in April.