Preschool · Science · week 25

Trees Are Plants Too: Bark Rubbing

Recognize trees as plants and make a bark rubbing to observe texture and pattern.

Trees are plants too! They have roots, a trunk instead of a stem, and leaves.

Feel a tree trunk and make a rubbing of its pattern.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Find one or two different trees outside to compare their bark by touch.
  • Help hold the paper steady against the trunk while your child rubs the crayon.
  • Talk about how trees are plants, just very big, with a trunk instead of a soft stem.
  • Save both the leaf and bark rubbings together to compare patterns.
Talk about it:
  • How did the tree bark feel different from a leaf?
  • Why do you think trees need such a strong trunk?
  • What is your favorite tree you have seen?

Mastery looks like: They can say that trees are plants with a trunk, roots, and leaves, and produce a bark rubbing that shows real texture.

Common stumbles: Thinking trees are not plants because they are so big is a common idea; comparing tree parts to flower parts, both have roots and leaves, helps connect them.

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