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Melbourne

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Warm up Questions

 

Is there an "urban forest" in your home city?

How many trees do you think there are in Boston?

July is one of the greenest months in Boston.  How does the summer foliage here compare to that of your home city?

 

Questions based on the podcast

 

B. Fill in the blanks with the words you hear in the radio broadcast.

 

1) Well, people in Melbourne, Australia, are enjoying a ................... of that thought.

 

2) It began three years ago when Melbourne launched a project to restore their declining urban forest after years of  ................... .

 

3) Residents could email us if there was an issue with the tree, if it had dropped a  ................... . 

 

4) Dear elm, I was delighted to find you alive and  ................... because a lot of your family used to live in the U.K. but they all caught a terrible  ...................  and died.

 

5) This month the city is  ................... some 50 other local governments for a class on urban forestry.

 

C. Factual Questions 

How many trees are there in Melbourne?

How many letters have the trees received?

Who is Aaron Wood?

How do the trees write back?

How are the letters helping Melbourne’s Urban Forest project? 

 

D. Discussion Questions

What do you think the tree’s life expectancy is based on?

Who benefits from a healthy urban forest? How?

Davis writes that parks are all about consumption, and forests are all about production. What can an Urban Forest produce?

Would a project like this be possible in your home city?

 

E. Now look at the City of Melbourne Web Site - specifically at the Interactive Map of the Urban Forest.  Use the map to answer the following questions. 

1) What does it mean if a tree's icon is orange?

2) What does it mean if a tree's icon is a diamond?

3) What does it mean if a tree's icon is green?

4) What does it mean if a tree's icon is a triangle?

5) Which of Melbourne's precincts has the most trees?

6) Which of Melbourne's precincts has the least trees?

7) Why do you think the area in the center of Melbourne's biggest parks are grayed out?

8) How and for whom would this map be useful?

9) What other information on the Urban Forest is available on the City of Melbourne web site?

 

F. Final optional project

 

Pick one specific tree in one of the districts of Melbourne and write it an email. What can you saw to a tree? That's up to you; plan a visit, ask a questions, give it a compliment or encouragement or say tell it this is the stupidest email you have ever written. Send the email. CC your teacher. See if you get a response.

 

 

 

 

 

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