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A successful team is a team that works together towards a common goal. In order to have a successful team you must be able to work despite obstacles and to want work towards the goal and to get along.
 * [[image:http://i48.tinypic.com/2ebyb7p.jpg width="192" height="144" caption="Tylyn"]] || **Brief Biography:** My Name is Tylyn Ruiz, I am 17 years old and attend New Design High School. I have a passion for knowledge and a penchant for learning. I enjoy music, art and science. I'm a GIANT nerd and I love taking mechanical things apart and putting them back together. I'm Quirky and fun and sometimes am ditsy but don't doubt that I know how to take apart your computer and then put it back together again.
 * What makes a successful team?**


 * 1) **What is one thing you bring to the team?.** One thing I bring to the team is that I am a complete nerd, therefore I love to learn. Also, I already know a lot about plants because my father loves to keep a garden.
 * 2) **What do you hope to learn from being on this team?** One thing I hope to learn from being on this team is patience

|| 1. **What makes a successful team?** a team that is successful can agree with other and get the job done
 * [[image:Picture_002.jpg width="192" height="202" caption="Carina"]] || **Brief Biography:** After three years in high school. I decided that being ai decided thats being a helper would be more useful to people. I go New Design High school where I am today, with the help of three teachers im creating this awesome guide. I enjoy going running at the F.D.R most of the time.
 * [[image:Picture_002.jpg width="192" height="202" caption="Carina"]] || **Brief Biography:** After three years in high school. I decided that being ai decided thats being a helper would be more useful to people. I go New Design High school where I am today, with the help of three teachers im creating this awesome guide. I enjoy going running at the F.D.R most of the time.


 * 1) **What is one thing you bring to the team?** can depend on me

|| 1.**What makes a successful team?** What makes a succ essful team is equal contribution by the team members. 2.**What is one thing you bring to the team?** my team can depend on me to do the work assigned. 3.**What do you hope to learn from being on this team?** I hope to learn something new about trees i never knew before. ||
 * 1) **What do you hope to learn from being on this team?** how to communicate
 * [[image:Picture0112.jpg width="182" height="140" caption="Lisette"]] || **Bio:**16, i love basketball, I'm on the schools girls basketball team.
 * [[image:devin.JPG width="235" height="174" caption="Devin"]] || **Brief Biography:** New Design makes me learn new things about who I am every year. Its an amazing school in its own way. I'm a big fan of baseball. I love to play the sport and even though the school doesn't have a good team I still support them. I go through phases with music. When I'm with my friends I can be a very corny guy. I go to school because I want to live the dreams of a good life. I could be good student whenever I feel like it but theses times are important for me so I have to become the "ACE in the rotation."


 * **What makes a successful team?** A successful team works together and cooperates with each other. A team has to have positive energy and get through problems that come into way of what the team needs to get done. The team needs to work fast and win.


 * **What is one thing you bring to the team?** I'm not sure, I could be a team player and do what I'm assigned to do for the group.


 * **What do you hope to learn from being on this team?** I hope to learn how others work with each other. I hope to learn new things with nature around us like plants, insects, I hope to learn how everything works in this world. ||

Team Agreements:
As a team, (Tylyn, Carina, Lisette and Devin) agree to:
 * 1) Respect Each Other And Listen To Our Views
 * 2) Do assigned work in a timely manner
 * 3) Do work Diligently
 * 4) Have fun =]
 * 5) Majority rules

Team Consequences:
In order to get fired from our team, a team member would have to:


 * 1) Neglect to do work
 * 2) Not get along with our partners
 * 3) Disregard what is agreed upon
 * 4) Do nothing
 * 5) Ignore the thoughts of the group

=__**Brooklyn Botanical Garden Walking Tour**__=

Field Guide
**Common Name**: Manchurian Alde r
 * Scientific Name:** Alnus Histuria
 * Family:** Birch
 * Native to:** Manchuria, Northeastern Asia, Central Asian Mountain Ranges
 * Description:** The Manchurian Alder has a soft but sturdy leaf which is an olive green color until the fall when it becomes a yellowish tan color. The bark of the tree is a very rough brown color. They grow to around 60 feet tall.
 * Fact:** Manchurian Alder trees are very sturdy, hardy trees and are capable of tolerating extreme heat. Manchurian Alder trees life for around 100 years.




 * Common Name**: Pin Oak or Spanish Swamp Oak
 * Scientific Name:** Quercus palustris
 * Family:**Facagee
 * Native to**: Eastern North Amarica, also native to the extreme south of Ontario, Canada
 * Description:** The Pin Oak has a sturdy leaf which is smooth to the touch, which have a light green coloring untill the fall when it turns a reddish brown. The bark of the tree is very rough, a dark greyish brown. They grow to around 70 feet tall.
 * Fact**: Young Pin Oak trees keep their leaves year round. The Leaves do die, but to not fall off until new leaves grow in the spring. Pin Oak trees live for around 120 years.


 * Common Name**:Japanese Tree Lilac
 * Scientific Name**: Syringa reticulata
 * Family:** Olive
 * Native To**: China and Japan
 * Description:** The Japanese Tree Lilac Flowers in early june. The flowers are creamy white to a light yellow. Its Leaves are a darkish green and are very waxy feeling and shiny. The bark of the tree is rough and dark greyish brown. Japanese tree Lilac grows to at leaast 20 feet tall
 * Fact:**Although some people find the Japanese tree lilac to be extremly fragrant, others can find it completely maloderous

Fact:The Branches are thin and light in weight, and therefore, are used for basketmaking. The bark and wood is also sometimes used to make charcoal
 * Common Name**: White Willow
 * Scientific Name**: Salix Alba
 * Family**: Salicaceae
 * Native To**: Europe and Western Central Asia
 * Description**: The White Willow has very small, white leaves with branches that hang far from the tree, creating the look to a canopy of leaves. The Bark of the tree is dark greyish brown. The White Willow grows to 100 ft.


 * Common Name**: White Oak
 * Scientific Name:**Quercus alba
 * Family**: Fagaceae
 * Native to**:North America :From Florida to Texas and Quebec to Minnesota
 * Description:** The White Oak has softer green leaves, which can reach three inches long. The leaves change from green to an orange-red in Autumn. Despite being called the White Oak, the bark of the tree is actually a grayish color. It is a very tolerant plant and can adapt to many different habitats. The White Oak reaches around 85 feet.
 * Fact:** White Oak trees live for hundreds of years. The oldest White Oak found was nearly 600 years old.

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=__**Central Park Tree tour**__=

Common Name: Siberian Crabapple Scientific Name: Malus Baccata Family: Roseceae Native to: Asia Description: The Siberian Crabapple tree has a soft, waxy green leaf. The tree has small white flowers that grow a light greenish or red fruit. Fact:The Siberian Crabapple tree is very hearty tree. They reach upwards of 50 feet tall.

Common Name: Chinese Crabapple Scientific Name: Malus Spectabilis Family: Rosaceae Native to: Asia Description: The Chinese Crabapple has dark green leave. The Chinese Crabapple also has very fragrant light pink and red flowers Fact:Like the Siberian Crabapple, the chinese crabapple is a ery hearty tree and can deal with the cold well. They reach around 30 feet tall.

Common Name: Yoshino Cherry Scientific Name: **//Prunus × yedoensis//** Family: Rosaceae Native to: Japan Description: The Yoshino Cherry tree is a hybrid tree. The Yoshino Cherry is naturally small and is cultivated worldwide for its beautiful flowers Fact: Yoshino Cherry trees reach a max of around 40 feet. When the small cherries fall on the ground they stain brick and sidewalk.

Common Name: Common Bald Cyprus Scientific Name: Taxodium Distichum Family: Cupressaceae Native to: Southeastern United States Description: The Common Bald Cyprus is a larger tree. Unlike most trees in the Cupressaceae family the Bald Cyprus sheds its leaves in the winter, hence the name Bald. Fact: The Common Bald Cyprus reaches up to 132 feet tall.

Common Name: Bloodgood Japanese Maple Scientific Name: Bloodgood Acer Plamatum Family: Sapindaceae Native to: Japan, North Korea, Mongolia Description: The Bloodgood Japanese Maple is a very small tree. The trunk and branches of the tree are deep red in color. The leaves of the tree are also deep red. Fact: The Bloodgood Japanese Maple reaches only about 30 feet tall.

Common Name: Callery Pear Tree Scientific Name: //Pyrus calleryana// Family: Rosaceae Native to: China Description: The Callery Pear Tree has waxy looking bright green leaves and a smooth light brown trunk. The laves turn pink, yellow, orange, red, and bronze, sometimes all on the same leaf Fact: The Callery Pear Tree reaches about 70 feet tall.

Common Name: Flowering Dogwood Scientific Name: Cornus Florida Family: Cornacea Native to: Eastern North America and eastern Mexico Description: The Flowering Dogwood has small, inconspicuous flowers. It also has larger green leaves, and a light brown trunk Fact: The Flowering Dogwood reach around 34 feet. The flowers of the tree are ‘bisexual’.



Common Name: Black Cherry Scientific Name: Prunus Serotina Family: Rosaceae Native to: Eastern North America, Southern Quebec Description: The Black Cherry Tree has small delicate white flowers. The leaves of the tree are a bright green and are firm to the touch. Black Cherries grow on the tree and can be picked off directly and eaten when ripe. Fact: The Black Cherry tree can grow to 90 feet tall.

Common Name: Hackberry Tree Scientific Name: //Celtis// Family: Cannabaceae Native to: Spread worldwide for centuries Description: Hackberry trees are medium sized trees. They have a small berry fruit. The leaves of the Hackberry Tree are larger and a dark green. Fact: The Hackberry Tree can reach up to 82 feet tall and on occasion grows up to 130 feet tall.

Common Name: Willow Tree Family: Salicaceae Native to: Worldwide in the northern hemisphere Description: Willows are larger trees. The trees have very thin branches that hang over its canopy creating a curtain-like effect. Fact: willow tree stems and branches are often used for basket making and live sculpture [creating or training the branches of a tree to grow in a certain shape.

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