Grades 9-12

Forest Restoration Tree Planting

Milford Mill Academy students planted dozens of trees and inspected the Gwynn's Falls as part of a stream buffer restoration project in Villa Nova Park. Susan C. Ingram/Staff photo.

Environmental Science and
Advanced Placement Environmental Science (APES)

Fall
Location: School Campus or Community Park

Essential Question: How are trees vital to clean drinking water and a healthy Chesapeake Bay?

After completing the Forestry Unit of the Environmental Science Curriculum or the AP Stream Field Study, students will take part in a countywide tree planting project. The project will provide the students with an authentic application of their classroom learning and the opportunity to become a true steward of the environment. Students will plant trees either on their school campus or at a location near their school in an effort to restore forest buffers for local streams.

Every high school in Baltimore County is encouraged to take place in this valuable experience. The Office of Outdoor Science will work with a “restoration liaison” selected by your school to schedule a planting date.

Environmental Science students helping to improve their local watershed by planting trees alongside a stream in Villa Nova Park.

Environmental Science Indicators:
Students will be able to apply knowledge about abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem to explain the interrelationships within the biosphere.

Western School of Technology student with his arms full of trees to be platned.

Senior Teacher Naturalist Pat Ghingher leading Western students in their tree planting.

Western School of Technology student placing sapling in the ground.

Western School of Technology students after a successful forest buffer restoration project.