👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will explain that trees provide wood used to make many everyday products.

Vocabulary
wood, tree, paper, build, furniture, material

Teaching Notes

• Show real or picture examples of wooden items (pencil, table, bookcase, door).
• Discuss where the wood comes from and why we use it.
• Emphasize that trees are natural resources that give us materials.
• Connect to recycling and caring for trees.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Definition. Trees give us wood, which people use to make many things.
Examples: chairs, desks, pencils, paper, and houses.
Helping ideas:

• Look around your home or classroom for things made of wood.
• Notice that wood can be big (house) or small (pencil).
• Even paper comes from wood!

Vocabulary and Definition

• — material that comes from trees.
• — a large plant with a trunk and branches.
• — to make something by joining parts.
• — thin sheets made from wood.
• — what something is made of.

Words to Learn

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Sentences to Fill In

1. Trees give us .
2. People use wood to things.
3. Paper is made from .
4. We use wood at , , and in .
5. Wood is a .

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need: a few wooden and non‑wooden classroom items.
What You Do:

1. Sort items into two groups: made of wood and not made of wood.
2. Record or draw what you found.
   Think and Talk:

• Which things are made from wood?
• Which are not?

Reflection

• What did you learn about wood?
• Why is it important to care for trees?