{"id":789101,"date":"2020-04-01T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=789101"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:25:42","slug":"forest-of-color","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/education\/forest-of-color","title":{"rendered":"Take Your Work To Kids Day, Challenge 2: A Forest of Color"},"author":7841,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[430042],"tags":[31921,122212,605891],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-789101","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-education","tag-gis-education","tag-takeyourworktokidsday","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"short_description":"Build your own map of tree species across the United States. You pick the story. You pick the colors. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

These activities are great for at-home learning and something any parent, guardian, or teacher can do with their child or student. Some activities can be done totally free! However, some of the best stuff in GIS requires an ArcGIS Online account. First, we recommend you check with your school to check if your child already has a school account so they can save and share their work when school returns. If your learner does not have an account, a parent or guardian can sign up for a free summer-long account at\u00a0Learn ArcGIS website<\/a><\/em> for access to all the tools you need to become a mappy family.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ever look around and notice all the different types of trees? Maybe it was on your street, in your favorite park, or in the car driving down the highway. There are thousands of different types of trees (or species<\/em>) just in North America. We can build maps of all of these trees that help us understand them better.<\/p>\n

Your city might make a map of neighborhood streets so that they can find areas that need more shade.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":789281,"id":789281,"title":"citytreemap","filename":"citytreemap.jpg","filesize":65320,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/education\/forest-of-color\/citytreemap","alt":"map of trees in New York City","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"citytreemap","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":789101,"date":"2020-03-30 15:16:11","modified":"2020-03-30 15:16:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":480,"height":480,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","medium-width":261,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","medium_large-width":480,"medium_large-height":480,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","large-width":480,"large-height":480,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","1536x1536-width":480,"1536x1536-height":480,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","2048x2048-width":480,"2048x2048-height":480,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap-465x465.jpg","card_image-width":465,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/citytreemap.jpg","wide_image-width":480,"wide_image-height":480}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

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A conservation group might make a map of the age of all of the trees in a forest to make sure that it isn’t over-harvested.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":789261,"id":789261,"title":"agemap","filename":"agemap.png","filesize":677515,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/education\/forest-of-color\/agemap","alt":"map of tree age","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"agemap","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":789101,"date":"2020-03-30 15:15:56","modified":"2020-03-30 15:16:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1529,"height":870,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","medium-width":459,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","large-width":1529,"large-height":870,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","1536x1536-width":1529,"1536x1536-height":870,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","2048x2048-width":1529,"2048x2048-height":870,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap-817x465.png","card_image-width":817,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/agemap.png","wide_image-width":1529,"wide_image-height":870}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

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There are so many ways to map trees. Sometimes the best way to start a map is by asking a question, such as “What is the most common tree in every forest in the United States?”<\/p>\n

That map looks like this.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":789301,"id":789301,"title":"","filename":"USAForestType.jpg","filesize":281243,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/education\/forest-of-color\/usaforesttype","alt":"USA forest type map","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"usaforesttype","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":789101,"date":"2020-03-30 15:24:21","modified":"2020-03-30 15:24:40","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1728,"height":877,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":235,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":390,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType.jpg","large-width":1728,"large-height":877,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType-1536x780.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":780,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType.jpg","2048x2048-width":1728,"2048x2048-height":877,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType-826x419.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":419,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/03\/USAForestType.jpg","wide_image-width":1728,"wide_image-height":877}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

There are 144 different colors on that map, each for a different type of tree. We can also change the map and use colors to tell a different story. I can think of a few, how about you?<\/p>\n