Teacher Resources
Teacher Resource Treehouses
- Marine Discovery: Exploring Marine Life
- Watch a slide show of marine life in México and movies of students in the lab. Includes a teacher's guide. Aligned with AZ Standards.
- The Life as a Lizard Unit Treehouse
- An overview of lizard biology culminating in the "Life as a Lizard" role playing game. Contains lessons with science standards, glossary words, information, internet and multimedia resources, and more!
- Making 3-D Models of the Tree of Life
- Create 3-D models of the Tree of Life to learn about the genetic connections between Life on Earth. Make models with common materials, use templates for "leaves" and get examples of trees to build.
- Build treehouses for learners
- Build treehouses with your classroom
- Related links and resources for teaching about phylogeny, evolution and biodiversity
Build Treehouses for Learners
- Build Teacher Resources for Learners
- Learn about the types of teacher resources you can create for learners: Lessons, Activities, Projects, Information Hunts, General, Portfolios and WebQuests. Find out how you can add resources by creating treehouse web pages or by uploading lessons and other materials as "documents" with the ToL Media Manager.
Invite Your Students to Build Treehouses
- Start Class Treehouse Building Projects: How to Register and Manage Student Projects
- Learn how to begin and manage classroom treehouse projects where your students can create treehouses individually or in groups. The Classroom Project Manager (login required) provides an interface where you can easily manage your classroom projects, and view and edit your students' treehouses. Once you register a project your students will need to follow the Instructions for Classroom Builder (Student) Login.
- Preview How to Register Your Class for Treehouse Building
- Teachers who are registered ToL contributors can register their classrooms for group and whole class projects.
- Treehouse Building Lessons
- We are developing lessons that match with the treehouse building steps. So far we have two lessons: the Introduction to the ToL WebQuest and Documenting Research.
- Treehouse Building and Education Standards
- View the National Technology Education Standards, Arizona State Science Education Standards for High School and the treehouse building activities that meet these standards. Coming soon, treehouse building and the National Science Education Standards.
- Basic Treehouse Project Guidelines
- The Basic Treehouse Project guidelines go through the expected content for a basic treehouse project. The guidelines follow the Treehouse Editor's steps for building a treehouse.
- Basic Treehouse Project Assessment Rubric
- The categories listed in the treehouse project assessment rubric reflect the major treehouse content areas, as well as some additional categories for judging the quality of the treehouse.
- Builders Toolkit
- Use the Builders Planning Guide to go over the treehouse building steps, view treehouse building activities, learn about how Rylan created his treehouse and find out how to document research.
- Using the Treehouse Editor goes over how to add text and add media to your treehouse.
Related Links and Resources
- Related Links and Resources
- View our featured resources as well as links to sites on biodiversity, natural history, evolution, bioscience education and more.