LIVE INTERACTIVE YOUR DESKTOP Tuesday, April 23, 2009 NOAA, SRS, USFS: Earth Then, Earth Now: Our Changing Climate Carbon, Oxygen, Water and Shade: Putting a Price on the Benefits of Your School Yard Trees Dr. David Bloniarz and Vicki Arthur

Carbon, Oxygen, Water and Shade: Putting a Price on the Benefits of Your School Yard Trees Vicki Arthur Dr. David V. Bloniarz U.S. Forest Service April 2009

 I-Tree Overview:  Urban U.S. is Increasing  Putting a Value on Urban Trees  I-Tree is a Science-Based Tool for Making Urban Tree Decisions  Taking I-Tree to Your Classroom!  How-to Use the Curriculum  Lesson Extensions on the Benefits of Trees  Education Standards

Percent Urban (2000)

Percent Urban (2010)

Do You Live in an Area Classified as Urban? Yes  No Yes  No

Percent Urban (2020)

Percent Urban (2030)

Percent Urban (2040)

Will Your Area Be Classified As Urban in the Next 30 Years? Yes  No Yes  No

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Putting i-Tree in Perspective Urbanization will have an increasingly significant impact on natural resource management in the next several decades. With increasing urbanization, the assessment, understanding, and integration of ecosystem services will be critical to sustaining human health and environmental quality.

Benefit-Based Approach Management Function

How Much “Ecosystem Value” Does a Large Tree Typically Provide? A) Less than $100/year B) Between $100-$500/year C) More than $1,000/year

i-Tree: Demonstrating That Trees Pay Us Back!

 Partner cooperation at its best  Science-based solutions addressing urban environmental issues  Constituent solidarity  Industry acceptance i-Tree is…

Flagship Software Applications i-Tree Utilities Project Partners

The i-Tree Partnership: opening new doors  Invasive exotics  Education  Environmental services

Establishing Classroom Partnerships

itreetools.org

Detailed, Species Specific Data

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East of the Mississippi and Pacific Northwest: Average tree cover counting all zones 40% Suburban residential zones 50% Urban residential zones 25% Central business districts 15% Setting Urban Tree Canopy Goals

What have we got to lose?

Oakville, Ontario

Trees as a local solution…

Levels of educational partnership… College and University Level College and University Level Secondary Level Curriculum Secondary Level Curriculum Adaptable to Primary Level! Adaptable to Primary Level!

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arbordayfoundation.org On-line Tree ID Guide

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treebenefits.com

Calculate a Price for Your Tree’s Overall Benefits!

Calculate Your Tree’s Water Quality Benefits

Calculate Your Tree’s Air Quality Benefits!

Calculate Your Tree’s Carbon Sequestration!

Try it out for yourself!  treebenefits.com  Compare benefits of different DBH and species of trees.

Natural Inquirer Forest Service’s Science Education Journal naturalinquirer.org

Climate Change Education Collection

Correlation to National Standards Science as inquiry - Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry Design and conduct a scientific investigation Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations Life science - Populations and ecosystems For ecosystems, the major source of energy is sunlight. Energy entering ecosystems as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis. That energy then passes from organism to organism in food webs. Earth and space science - Structure of the earth system The atmosphere is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and trace gases that include water vapor. The atmosphere has different properties at different elevations

Correlation to National Standards Science in Personal and Social Perspectives - Science and technology in society Science cannot answer all questions and technology cannot solve all human problems or meet all human needs History and nature of science - Science as a human endeavor The work of science relies on basic human qualities, such as reasoning, insight, energy, skill, and creativity– as well as on scientific habits of mind, such as intellectual honesty, tolerance of ambiguity, skepticism, and openness to new ideas History and nature of science - Nature of science Scientists formulate and test their explanations using observation, experiments, and theoretical and mathematical models Mathematics - Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates Develop and use strategies to estimate the results of rational- number computations and judge the reasonableness of the results

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Would you use this curriculum? Tell us how: (Type in the chat)  Yes or No?  What subjects that you teach would this calculator help you with?  Would you plan to do more with the lesson using extensions?  What is your overall reaction to the educational potential of the tree benefits calculator?

Carbon, Oxygen, Water and Shade: Putting a Price on the Benefits of Your School Yard Trees! Vicki Arthur David V. Bloniarz U.S. Forest Service April 2009 Your Feedback Needed! Please let us know if you used this curriculum and how useful it was.

Special Thanks to NOAA, SRS and USFS for sponsoring this Web Seminar!