Fernando'S Gift Lesson Plan Template Page 14
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19Lesson 4: How do trees help us?
Purpose
Students will understand our relationship with the environment, specifically the role of trees
Objectives
Students will be able to
Materials needed from the Kit
Book, Fernando’s Gift
[Diagrams of tree parts and their functions—Jenny?]
Crayons for making tree rubbings
Materials in the Environment
Trees: teacher should find out the names of the different types of trees near the school,
and if possible, other trees near where children live.
Chalkboard and chalk
Procedure
1. Teacher asks students to remember what Fernando gives his friend Carmina as a birthday
present (a tree planted in the forest).
2. Teacher asks students to think about what kinds of trees and plants grow near the school,
and near students’ homes. Teacher helps students to name the different kinds of trees, and
writes these tree names on the board. (Some possibilities: oak, pine, banana, mangoes)
3. What are trees made of? Teacher tells students they will go outside and draw trees—Feel
the bark with your hands—what kind of texture do you feel? Teacher shows students how
to do a rubbing with crayons and paper to see how the texture of the bark is different for
different trees.
4. Back in the classroom, teacher introduces terminology roots, trunk, branches, seeds, seed
pods, etc.
5. Teacher asks students to think about what trees give to people (fruit, seeds, wood, etc.)
Ask students to name their favorite kind of tree fruit (such as mangoes, bananas). Teacher
can write these on board.
6. Teacher re-reads the sections of the story in which Fernando talks about his grandfather
and tree planting. What do they say that trees provide? Teacher asks students to name
examples of what Fernando and his grandfather are talking about.
7. Teacher introduces the word ‘habitat’ (definition: where something can live, or the place
where birds, animals, people have what they need to live, that is, shelter, food, water, air).
Teacher asks children to think about what they need in their own ‘habitat’.
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