Trees and forests grade 6 science

Learn about amazing trees with this fun, and free hands-on unit study. Free nature unit studies for homeschooling from The Crafty Classroom.

These fun forest science activities and tree theme science investigations are a wonderful way to help kids learn about the forest and parts of a tree.

Learn about certain animals and their habitats with this fun rain forest animal science worksheet from The Mailbox. Have your kids add a little color to it following the exercise by coloring the trees!

Forest scene complete with lift up flaps with layers and information underneath. The 4 layers of the forest are part of the grade 6 Trees and Forest unit.

Take a closer look at a tree to by understanding its form in summer and winter, how it typically grows and matures and where it lives.

International Paper - Life of the Forest

As the tree grows it starts the appearance of rings inside the trunk. Counting the rings of a tree gives a fairly accurate measure of a tree’s age. The growth rings show how the weather has changed and affected the tree’s quality of life over the years. The wider the rings the more growth of the tree and the closer it is to ideal weather conditions. The narrow the rings will indicate less growth due to cold weather or drought conditions. The oldest layer of growth is in the center; the…

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!