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- Kindergarten
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Students examine fire safety tips and the job of firefighters. They watch a Sesame Street video, sing a song, observe a demonstration by visiting firefighters, and crawl to a firefighter who is wearing safety apparatus. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students discuss terms related to ecology. They explain what happens to species in cases of fire. 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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- 3rd - 8th
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Students examine how a community works together to protect them from fire. They work together to design a functional tool that could be helpful in fighting fires. They share their tool with the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 7th
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Students are introduced to the interconnectoins of forest ecosystems, using food webs as an example. They create a forest food web using string. They discuss how humans are part of the ecosystems. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students devise and conduct a survey at their school to discover what the students like to do in forests. They then plot the results in a line-graph. Students research the various things threatening forest life. 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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- 7th
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Students identify parts of a tree, defining vocabulary associated with different types of trees. They calculate percentage of growth, diameter, and radius. Students explain how foresters manage and maintain a forest as a crop. Students identify trees as a renewable resource and list products associated with tree production. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine the causes and effects of alterations in a forest ecosystem and evaluate how human actions may only seem to have minor consequences, but can lead to extinctions of large numbers of populations. Students produce an educational video, 5-10 minutes in length, within the forest discussing concepts from the unit. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students study the aspects of a forest floor ecosystem, including decomposition, the water cycle, food webs, the needs of living things, and physical vs. chemical change over an extended period. In addition, students conduct observations each week in teams of three, record information about the forest floor environment, and report their findings to the class. Full Review »
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