Forestry Lesson Plans

Fourth graders plant a tree. In this sustainable forestry lesson, 4th graders define community forest and brainstorm a location to plant a new tree on the school grounds. Students learn how to plant a tree and discuss choosing an appropriate tree for it's location.

Twelfth graders thoroughly examine 20 selected tree species, identify the types of trees, distinguish plant characteristics and overall site quality and map the location of each tree.

Students explore the methods historians use to reconstruct the past, forest succession and how to read the land and explore local history.

Students explore the forest as a renewable resource that should be conserved and utilized, different management techniques that are currently being used and how the forest impacts their everyday life.

Sixth graders compare finished wood products to the raw materials from which they come. They determine how consumption impacts the availability of the natural resource found in the forest. They create an advertisement for one product.

Fourth graders define what a community forest is. They determine an appropriate site and what type of tree to plant there.

Students identify the relationship of tree resources in a word sort. They prioritize information from the word sort and the book by making a hierarchical map. Students should be able to conclude that we need trees and that we need to take good care of them.

Students examine trees. In this tree lesson, students create a model of a tree and its parts.

Students investigate the analysis and decision making that goes into managing forest lands and participate in a simulation of a twenty-five year forest management cycle.

Young scholars examine events in Wisconsin that have produced the forests of today. They view a newscast and then puts the events into a timeline and draws pictures showing the events.