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- 6th - 8th
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Students consider the interdependency of life in a temperate forest by studying selected organisms from an Asian temperate forest and creating a food web. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students listen to a giant, old oak explain to a little sapling how people and forests must co-exist in the wonderful video Forest Family Forever! With Ed Asner. They identify the four layers of a tropical rainforest. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students examine the cause and effect of deforestation and investigate possible solutions. They read and discuss an article, write an essay, and conduct research for a project involving a forest management interview, or analyzing uses of wood product. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students examine the economic and ecological benefits of forest canopies. They read and discuss an article, answer questions, conduct research, draw field sketches of a canopy ecosystem, conduct a feasibility study, or prepare tourist information. 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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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students recognize the social, cultural, economic and environmental significance of forests. They develop timeline of activities and developments in the boreal forest since the end of the last period of glaciation. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students recognize the important role of humans in the protection and preservation of natural environments. They investigate the Saskatchewan forest in Canada by interpreting lines, grids, symbols, scale and visual representations of the forest. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students discuss the forest products industry and its affects upon their communities. They inventory the wood and paper products they consume and determine how it translates into the number of trees cut. Using a spreadsheet, they record, analyz, and predict their consumption of wood products. By creating a Web page, blog, or brochure, they inform their communities about their findings. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students discuss the reasons for protecting farmland, wetlands, praires, and forests from urban development. They identify reasons for expanding urban development and develop an argument for an issue they are assigned to. They debate with other students about why their perspective is correct. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine the impact forests have on our lives. They listen to the book "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein, and brainstorm about how forests are important to us. In small groups they create a poster illustrating how the forest affects our lives. Full Review »
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