This Tuesday I went to plant trees with the organization Keep Durham Beautiful and half of my grade. Here’s how it was organized. The first half of the school day I watched a documentary about trees and how they communicate and live. At first I thought that the documentary was going to be platitudinous. On the contrary, it was rather interesting. The documentary was about Judi Dench and her connections to trees.
The next half of the day, I went with half of my grade with Keep Durham Beautiful to plant trees. First, you had to decide where you wanted to plant your tree. You could plant a tree with a partner or individually. If you did it individually you could plant one tree and if you were with a partner you were expected to plant two. I chose to plant with a partner. Sadly, we only planted one tree together. It was a bit difficult to dig the hole, because of the terrain of the ground like rocks, hard clay and other materials. Therefore, some of my peers and I were unable to plant a second tree due to time constraints.
After planting, the whole grade made a reflection. In the reflection, there was different questions that relate to trees. One of the questions was about anything that you now acknowledge about the environment and trees. Another question was about what you will do to help and acknowledge the environment and tree. To this, I think that, it is important to preserve trees because they do so much for our lives. For example, they absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen which leads to a natural climate. If you didn’t know too much about carbon dioxide. When there is too much of it in the atmosphere the greenhouse effect happens. And that leads to climate change. It is important to have carbon dioxide but not too much of it. All together this active was a fun way to acknowledge the environment.
