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Forest Food Web

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
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.
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Forests and Photosynthesis

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of photosynthesis. They investigate the effects of light on seedlings. Students grow plants and record the data. Students view satellite images that show the monthly amount of vegetation present in the...
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Animal Adaption to Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept of adaptation as a means of surviving in varied environments. They discuss human adaptations and then view slideshows and video that present animal adaptations in the following environments: cold...
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Treetures

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify the different forests of the world and some of the characteristics that differentiate them. They explore old magazines, calendars and photos and fill out a scavenger hunt worksheet.
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Forest Activity: Forest Layers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
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...
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DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders list examples of the diverse life forms that live in different environments, such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands and wetlands.
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Getting to Know "Our Environment"

For Students 6th - 12th
In this environment worksheet, students access a website to describe the landscape, climate, forests, and animals in British Columbia. This worksheet has 3 matching and 5 short answer questions.
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Finding Out-- Forest Researchers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this social studies and science worksheet, pupils study facts about the forest, creatures who inhabit the forest and those who work in forestry. Students complete 20 questions including word meanings, surveying classmates, matching...
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Forests

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders 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...
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students locate the many forests located in Oregon. In groups, they use the internet to research employment data on wood products made in the state. They discuss how looking at information presented in a different way can change their...
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What Do You Think About Sharks?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore sharks. They read a story about sharks and act out using Reader's Theater. They discuss fact and attitude statements about sharks and complete a Shark Survey. They create a shark promotion brochure informing...
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Biomes- Culminating Slideshow

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the concept of differentiation of biomes. They select one biome and conduct research to obtain information. In particular, 3rd graders demonstrate how to find a biome on a map. The information is used to create...
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Adapted to Fire

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore forest species' adaptations to fire by participating in a scavenger hunt and mapping a burned forest. Students create maps and explore how indigenous species adapted to living with fire.
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The Hidden Forest

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the forests of the Pacific Northwest. After being read a book, they discover the choices people have made in this area and its effect on the environment. They examine the role of kelp plants on the economy of this area...
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From North to South...Quebec's Forest Regions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify and describe the different regions of Canada. With a focus on the forest regions, they use an atlas to locate the ecozones. They identify the characterstics of the climate and vegetation and the relationship...
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Optional Laboratory: Forest Volume Cruise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the process in which to complete a forest volume cruise. They practice calculating the amount of lumber per acre of a given area. They share their results with the class.
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Forests of the Deep

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify three ways in which seamounts are important to biological communities. They also discover how deep-sea corals are important to the seamounts. They finally explain why scientients are worried about the future of ecosystems.
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People Who Work in the Woods

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study the types of jobs that people can do in the forest. They examine those who study the forest, harvest the trees, and plant trees to renew the forest.
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Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine soil in forests looking for animals and insects. They divide the animals based on their number of legs and draw the animal they have collected.
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Forest Activity: Interpreting a Graph

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research forest growth online. They analyze the parts and contents of a graph, then summarize in narrative form the changes in the forest over time.
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Driving Forces Forestry In Canada

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students discuss the natural and economic impact of forests and forestry. Using given statistics they construct different types of graphs in which they make observations and draw conclusions.
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People & Trees

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students see that people have developed new technologies and new products that increase efficiencies and maximize the productive use of each tree harvested. This lesson provides many good ideas across the curriculum to study forestry.
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Every Tree For Itself

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders play a game where they are trees gathering sun, water, and nutrients and CO2 represented by pieces of paper or poker chips. They record their collected requirements and graph how they grew as a forest.
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Investigation 1 - Wetlands, Forests & Deserts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine surface terrain and how plants and animals are affected by the temperatures and precipitation that elevation and terrain creates. Then students predict what type of environment plants and animals live in.