| Explore | I know that trees need water and sunlight to be able to grow and the trees need to be in a good area to be able to grow healthy and bigger. Something that I discovered in class is that trees add beauty but also contributes shade. What products do trees give us? |
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| Research Question | How can tree health mitigate against climate change and how do trees improve human health? |
| Predictions | My predictions on the question are that I believe that when a tree grows it can be able to stop climate change or something or by being able to remove carbon dioxide from the air |
| Experimental Design | Our plan is to each choose 2 trees at our homes, observe their traits, measure their diameter, assess, their health, find their value, and compare to our groupmates to find the differences in tree value. This information will help us begin our research to find answers to our research questions. |
| Conclusion | A claim that we can make about our experiment is that we believe that when a tree grows it would be able to stop climate change or something or by being able to remove carbon dioxide from the air or prevent floods. Another reasoning we can say that trees can stop climate change or floods is that for an Avocado tree about 2,416 gallons of stormwater runoff this year and could help stop the climate change or being able to prevent floods from happening. Our data that we collected can support our claim because our scientist basically answered our “claim” she said that, “managing 50–70 million acres of forestland, an additional 160 million tons of carbon dioxide would be taken out of the atmosphere every year.” Also when we calculated our trees the value for the Avocado tree was with a diameter of 23 inches intercepts with 2,416 gallons of stormwater runoff. And the value for the Ligustrum tree was with a diameter of 26 inches intercepts with 920 gallons of stormwater runoff. Our data that we collected can support our claim because our scientist basically answered our “claim” she said that, “managing 50–70 million acres of forestland, an additional 160 million tons of carbon dioxide would be taken out of the atmosphere every year.” Also when we calculated our trees the value for the Avocado tree was with a diameter of 23 inches intercepts with 2,416 gallons of stormwater runoff. And the value for the Ligustrum tree was with a diameter of 26 inches intercepts with 920 gallons of stormwater runoff. |
| Investigation Theme | TREE |
| Grade Level | High School Students (Grades 9,10,11,12) |
| Teacher Name | Savanah Rhine |
| School Name | Watsonville High School |
| Session | Spring 2021 |