Interactive Exhibition
Content Area: Restoring Chicago’s Rare Ecosystem
Interaction 2: An Exhausting City
Interaction 3: Digging Our Roots In
Interaction 4: Moving on Through
Living in an Oven
An Exhausting City
Digging Our Roots In
Moving on Through
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Trees can drop the temperature of a city by 2-3 degrees, making life a lot more comfortable for you and me can you tell the difference.
Directions: Place hands on interaction to feel the difference in heat due tree coverage
Many large cities have extremely high levels of air pollution which cause health problems, such as asthma and emphysema. Trees can counter-act this pollution by cleaning the air and reducing smog. Over the course of one year, trees removed an estimated 1,821 metric tons of air pollution in New York City. Imagine what they could do for Chicago.
Directions: Press the red buttons to smell the exhaust. Then guess which smell belongs to a city with lots of tree coverage, and flip up the flap to see if you were correct.
Some of the native trees of Chicago consist of Oaks, Hackberry, & the Kentucky Coffee Tree. Studies have shown that the mere act of having trees around causes health benefits like lowering stress and blood pressure. With these benefits everyone should learn how to plant a tree, so we are going to teach you the important steps to planting one correctly.
1. Locate a good spot for the tree
2. Select a tree that suits the site
3. Prepare the site
4. Water the tree's root ball
5. Dig the hole
6. Loosen the subsoil
7. Place the tree's root ball into the hole
8. Water the tree
9. Mulch
10. Don't forget to check up on the tree
5 million birds of 250 different species fly through Chicago each year in Migration and thats not counting the number of birds that live in Chicago all year long.
Can you guess which states population is equal to the amount of birds that fly through Chicago during migration?
Directions: Flip flap to see if you guessed the correct state.
