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2009 Arbor Day National Poster Contest

Trees are Terrific… in Cities and Towns!

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Correlation with National Education Standards

The activities in the 2009 Arbor Day National Poster Contest Guide correlate with the following education standards:

Activity 1: Benefits of Your Community Trees
National Science Education Standards Correlation:
  • Develop an understanding of populations and ecosystems.
  • Develop an understanding of populations, resources, and environments.
  • Develop an understanding of diversity and adaptations of organisms.
National Social Studies Standard Correlation:
  • Describe how people create places that reflect cultural values and ideals as they build neighborhoods, parks, and the like.
National Math Standard Corellation:
  • Recognize and apply mathematics in contents outside of mathematics.
Activity 2: Tree-mendous Community Tree Contest
National Science Education Standards Correlation:
  • Develop an understanding of organisms.
  • Develop an understanding of populations and ecosystems.
  • Develop an understanding of abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry.
Create a Poster Activity
National Art Education Contest Standards
  • Students generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work.
  • Students employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas.
  • Students select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas.
  • Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks.