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The Tree in the Ancient ForestFrom Circle of Trees
We gratefully acknowledge Dawn Publications for permission to use the text of the children’s picture book The Tree in the Ancient Forest by Carol Reed-Jones. This is the ancient forest. This is the three-hundred-year-old tree That grows in the ancient forest….
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Trees for KenyaFrom Circle of Trees
When Wangari Maathai was a little girl growing up in central Kenya in Africa, the land was green, the streams full, and the trees grew thick and lush. To help her family with meals, Wangari gathered firewood from the trees around her village. On her first day gathering, her mother told her “Don’t…
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Trout Are Made of TreesFrom Circle of Trees
Trout Are Made of Trees by April Pulley Sayre, text copyright 2008. Used with permission by Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.Read the story dramatically and have fun with the sound effects! Trout are made of trees. In fall, trees let go of leaves, which swirl and twirl and slip into streams….
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Visual EssayFrom Circle of Trees“What Can One Person Do When 6.8 Billion Are Frying the Planet?” by Franke James. Posted December 28, 2010 on the YES! Magazine website. YES! Magazine encourages you to make free use of this article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Printing This Handout Download a…
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You're Saved by Something GreenFrom Circle of Trees
From The Kids’ Book of Awesome Stuff (Brotman-Marshfield Curriculum, June 2004). Used with permission. Take a deep breath. The air you just breathed in is different from the air you just breathed out. The air you breathed out is a gas that can suffocate you if too much of it gets in the air. That…