Based on the acclaimed book
No Student Left Indoors:
Creating a Field Guide to
Your Schoolyard

Helping K-12 Teachers and students
to discover, explore, observe, and record the nature in their schoolyard. For urban, suburban, and rural schools.


Take A Tree Walk

Take A Tree Walk will teach you how to identify the trees in your backyard, schoolyard, and local park. Learn how to identify trees by observing the leaves, trunk, size and shape of the tree. Take this book with you outdoors so you can take field notes in the Field Notes pages, make lists of the trees you see and learn why trees are important to our environment. Read interesting stories by kids about their tree walks. Take A Tree Walk is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association, Jeff Corwin, Wildlife biologist and Emmy winning Executive Producer and host of Animal Planet's popular TV series, "The Jeff Corwin Experience."holds the National Gardening Association's Seal of Approval, and has won The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval. Take A Tree Walk is a great gift for kids, families, and people who like to learn about trees and the environment or who just want to have some fun in the outdoors. Purchase your signed copy today!

ISBN 978-0-9709754-1-4
By Jane Kirkland
Price $9.95 U.S.
Trim size: 8 ½ X 11
Page count: 32
Interior: 4 color
Photographs: 61
Illustrations: 33
User Level: Ages 8 and up
Category: Juvenile nonfiction
Pub date: July 2002
Imprint: Take a Walk® Books
Publisher: Stillwater Publishing

Here are just a few of the exciting things you'll learn in Take A Backyard Bird Walk:
Whooo lives in trees?
How old is that tree?
Why do leaves turn color?
How does a tree grow?
What tree is that?


Learn about some of the mammals, birds, and other creatures that can be found in trees. Discover how to tell a squirrel's nest from a bird's nest.


Everyone knows that the rings of a tree can tell us its age. But here you learn how to estimate the age of a tree without cutting it down! You'll have fun in the field and impress your friends when you can estimate the age of the trees you see.


Discover why leaves turn color in the fall and learn how to identify trees by the color (and shape) of their fall leaves.


Learn what a tree needs to grow and how it gets nutrients from the soil. Discover the growth rate of some of our most common trees and learn why even dead trees are important to our world.


Learn to identify trees by observing their leaves and bark as well as their flowers, fruits, cones, seeds and nuts. Learn the differences between coniferous trees and deciduous trees as well as the meaning and pronunciation of those two fun words!

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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.4