Xylem and phloem transport in trees is the focus of this Grade 6 Science worksheet on trees and forests. Students examine how trees move water, minerals, and sugars through their vascular tissues while connecting transport processes to environmental and protective adaptations.

🌲 What Students Explore

Students explain how xylem and phloem transport materials through a tree and investigate how tree conditions can affect sap movement. The resource also addresses how freeze–thaw cycles, drought, and pest damage can change sap flow patterns. Students identify how bark traits help protect trees from herbivory and fire, linking tree structure with survival in forest environments.

📚 What’s Included

• ✔️ Student worksheet covering xylem and phloem transport, sap flow, and bark protection
• ✔️ Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement for reviewing key ideas
• ✔️ Separate Teacher Guide with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes
• ✔️ Multiple-choice, true-or-false, short-answer, matching, cloze, reading, essay, and “did you know” activities

🔬 A Varied Science Practice Experience

The worksheet combines multiple-choice questions with true-or-false checks, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, a cloze passage, an essay response, and a “did you know” section. This gives students opportunities to recall scientific information, describe biological processes, apply ideas to tree responses, and communicate their thinking in different ways.

🏫 Practical Classroom Use

Use this Grade 6 trees and forests worksheet as guided practice during a lesson, independent science work, review after instruction, or a follow-up activity. The included notes supplement provides a concise way to revisit the lesson content, while the separate teacher guide supports preparation with teaching tips, discussion prompts, learning objectives, and common mistakes to watch for.

Designed around the provided Alberta framework, this resource gives teachers a focused way to teach tree transport systems while connecting xylem and phloem to real environmental pressures and protective bark characteristics.