Students make adhesives from some common food substances and use flour paste to make pinatas and other crafts from papier mache.

Students read three articles about Oklahoma's eastern redcedar and find the central idea and supporting facts and author's point of view. Students conduct scientific investigations with eastern redcedar samples. Students identify the range of the eastern redcedar.

Students make paper from recycled paper.

Students make the connection between seeds and trees by gathering and planting acorns.

Students will read about Christmas tree farming and early Christmas tree customs. Students will develop timelines based on the reading about the history of Christmas trees. Students will write narratives about their own family holiday customs. Students will complete array and/or pre-algebra problems based on Christmas tree farming. Students will construct a Christmas tree and label its parts. Students will locate Oklahoma Christmas tree farms on a map of Oklahoma.

Students will use their senses to observe and write about a tree, read about Oklahoma forest regions, locate the different forest regions on a map of Oklahoma, create map legends based on the reading, and create models of trees.

Students discuss, develop, invent and implement a plan for making informed personal economic decisions about renewable resources.

The importance of fire to maintaining the health of prairie, brush and forest lands.