Become a ToL Treehouse Builder

Treehouses are ToL pages built for kids and other people interested in learning about the Tree of Life. To build these treehouses, we need your help.

In order to create ToL treehouse pages and contribute images and other media to the ToL database, you first need to register as a ToL Treehouse Builder. If you are a registered ToL Scientific Contributor, you already have treehouse building privileges, and you can sign in here with your Contributor ID and Password.

Registered treehouse builders, please sign in here to upload new images or revise data for your images in the ToL database.

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Why Become a Treehouse Builder?

When you contribute to the Tree of Life site, you will be proud to know that you are joining a growing community of bioscience learners.

All treehouse builders can:

• Learn about phylogenetic biology, new places, organisms and projects.
• Access fun, interdisciplinary activities to learn about biodiversity online, in class and outdoors.
• Create digital media (audio, images, movies, animations, stories, poems and reports) of your work.
• Publish treehouses online and share the exciting work that you do studying organisms and biodiversity.
• Communicate collaborate and share your experiences with other teachers, learners and scientists.

• Learn how to make your own treehouse webpage using images, audio, video, and text about your favorite organisms.
• Create and share games, stories, investigations, arts and crafts projects, images, biographies, and more with kids, science enthusiasts and scientists around the world.

• Build excitement about bioscience learning by providing your students with a fun and creative ways to learn about Life on Earth.
• Create interactive lesson plans and activities for your students to learn about biodiversity and phylogeny.
• Support the scientific inquiry process in your classroom and help create young scientists. Using ToL learning tools assists students with building their prior knowledge, reflecting on their practice, publishing their results, entering into the dialogue of scientists, and generally building their self-concept as a science practitioner.
• Forge connections between science, literacy and technology learning. Creating web pages provides a motivating medium to promote student writing and scientific enterprise. The process of building a web page will cultivate students' basic computer skills as well as more advanced areas such as the creation of multimedia files.

• Support learning about biodiversity by sharing your expertise and enthusiasm with kids, teachers and lifelong science learners.
• Reach a broad audience with your materials and information