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- 1st
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Students examine pictures of forest wildlife and identify different animals that live in the forest. They discuss resources the forest provides for human use and explore the concept that the forest is used by many at the same time. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the history of the forest industry in Canada. They view a website, and answer questions on a worksheet imbedded in this plan. Each group prepares a forest industry fact sheet. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine the forest layers and types of forests. They explore a website, read content on forest layers and the effects of environmental conditions, sumarize the characteristics of a forest type and present the information to the class. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 12th
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Students analyze the role of the forest in literature. They read various literature selections, analyze the role the forest played as a setting, character, or symbol, and complete a writing activity. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 6th
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Students explore the elements of a forest ecosystem. They examine the elements needed to form a forest food web. Students construct and describe food webs that include nonliving elements of the ecosystem. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students create a forest management plan while working in the school forest. They decide before their visit the school forest what their goals of forest mangement is for example, recreation, hunting, non-game wildlife, or timber production. Pupils work in groups according to the mangement goal. Students collect data on 1/10 acre plots and extrapolate out to the stand as a whole. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students describe a forest as a living community. They determine members interact, and in many cases, depend on each other for their basic survival needs. They investigate how dependent the Native Americans were on the forest community for survival and that even today we too are dependent on plants for survival. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students work with a partner to sort pictures, sounds and objects according to whether they think each item can be found in a rainforest or temperate forest. They create display boards representing rainforest animals and forest animals Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students examine the importance of forests. In groups, they complete measurements of forests to determine its economic value. They discover the events that can alter the life of a forest and identify leaves using a key. They use the Internet to discover careers in the foresty field. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a "Treasure Hunt" designed to lead them through a series of websites where they can see maps of the rain forests and the different layers of a rain forest. They graph and compare the temperature and rainfall of a rain forest and the temperature and rainfall of South Mississippi. Full Review »
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