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Infromation on how to care for an indigenous plant potted during your excursion.

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Follow up questions to explore:

How are Oceans being affected by the burning of fossil fuels?

How does ocean acidification affect marine animals?

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Video: Preparing urban landscapes for the future

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Video: Preparing urban landscapes for the future

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How many planets does it take to sustain your lifestyle?

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What is your Ecological Footprint? How many planets does it take to support your lifestyle? Take this free quiz to find out!

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Step 1: Start by searching your local city (or country) to find a garden that is closest to your school (e.g. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne).

Step 2: Find you tree species (use botanical name).

Step 3: Choose a climate change scenario.

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or enter the latitude and longitude of a location:

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*Pre 1950 (1921-1950): 14.8oC

*Current (1994-2023):          16.1oC

^2050 (projected):                16.8oC

^2090 (projected):                19oC

stats collated from *Bureau of Meteorology & ^Climate Assessment Toolkit

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Part 1. Tree and habitat assessment

1. Find a tree in your garden, street, school or local park.

2. Try to identify your tree. Collecting samples or taking photos of the leaves, flowers, fruits and bark will assist. You might also find that your street, park or school has had its trees registered on the OpenTrees.org database (see link). This may help to narrow down the identification.

3. Research where your tree naturally occurs around the world (i.e. is it an Australian native tree from NSW and Qld, or from Western Europe, etc.). Try to find out the habitat where the tree naturally grows, eg. alpine, coastal, rainforest, desert etc.

4. Using the data from the habitat assessment above, predict the suitability of your tree to Melbourne’s current or future climate. Use the Climate Assessment Toolkit (see link) to compare your prediction with scientific data.

Part 2. Carbon stored in your tree

5. To estimate the amount of carbon stored in your tree, you will need to measure the circumference of the trunk. Measure the circumference (in cm) from a height of 130cm. Refer to the images in the links for details.

6. Use the document to calculate an estimate of how much carbon is stored in your tree. Record the CO2-e result.

7. Look at your last electricity statement and find out how much total greenhouse gas emissions your household/school created (it will be stated somewhere on the bill). Compare the emissions to what is currently stored in your tree.

8. If your tree isn't suited to Melbourne's current or future climate, research some alternative tree species that grow to a suitable height, can cope with our warming climate and would look beautiful growing in your community.

- Can you design a garden bed for your school with 5 suitable tree species to prepare for Melbourne's warming climate.

- What are the benefits of having trees in our communities?

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Follow up questions to explore:

What are some benefits with constructing a building using wood rather than steel and concrete?

Would you live in a wooden skyscraper?

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Follow up questions to explore:

What are some of the benefits of trees in urban environments?

Which of the cities featured in this video would you like to visit?

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What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees? - Stefan Al

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Follow up questions to explore:

What changes can you make to reduce your carbon footprint?

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Follow up questions to explore:

How many trees make up the City of Melbourne’s urban forest?

What are some of the benefits of trees in urban landscapes?

What are the three most common trees currently growing in City of Melbourne?

Do you have any of those species in your garden, street or at school?

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Follow up questions to explore:

What do plants convert Carbon Dioxide into?

What chemical element is present in all living organisms?

What chemical element do fossils fuels contain?

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Melbourne's Urban Forest Strategy | City of Melbourne

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simpleshow explains the Carbon Footprint

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How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life