In these activities, you and your partner will have to choose a specific role. Your garden design needs to include at least one of each state trees, flowers and three historical trees. Your budget is $200. Finally, your group will share your design in a final presentation.

Process & Resources

As a team, all of you come up with a design map of the garden, using your data table information and arranging the plants in a pleasing manner. You must create the map in Inspiration and label each tree and flower.

Role: Accountant. The Accountant will have to use data from the State Trees and Flowers table provided by the Researcher.  The Accountant coordinates with his team how many trees and flowers should they buy in order to meet the budget. In order to do so, he/she fills out Budget Worksheet.

 

Role: Historian. The Historian looks for three trees currently present on the White House grounds that were planted by someone famous.  The Historian fills out the Historical Trees Data Table  (template provided).

 

 

 

Role: Researcher. The Researcher will have to research state trees and flowers for the states in the tri-state area of the United States Northeastern region: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. The Researcher also finds out the year of legislation for these trees and flowers and inserts information into State Trees and Flowers Data Table.

 

Home | Introduction | Task | Process & Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion | Teacher’s Page | Credits

Design by Emily Vandalovsky; Content by Anne Vitale and Emily Vandalovsky

Activity One:  “Planting Trees and Flowers”

The US National Arboretum State Trees and State Flowers Page

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/statetreeflower.html

 

50 States State Trees and Flowers

http://www.50states.com/tree/ and  http://www.50states.com/flower/

 

State Trees Poster from USDA Forest Service

http://z.about.com/d/forestry/1/0/S/F/state_trees.jpg

 

New Jersey State Flower website

New Jersey State Tree scroll to NJ & look in the year of legislation

New York State Flower website

New York State Tree website

Connecticut State Flower website

Connecticut State Tree website

 

In The White House Historical Association Historical Tours:

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/02/02.html

 - select President’s Park — Gardens & Grounds Menu on the left

 - select The Trees from the Menu at the bottom of the page

 - you may use President’s Park Timeline from the bottom menu

Activity Three:  “Make a Presentation”

For Activity Three, the objective is to create a presentation about your newly designed White House Garden. You will transfer your Garden Design into PowerPoint to create a nine-slide presentation in the following format:

1) Title Page

2), 3) and 4) - pages dedicated to state plants of each state

5), 6), and 7) - pages dedicated to historical plants

8) Garden Design Page

9) Conclusion / Credits Page

   

Resources:

Activity Two:  “Garden Design”