Learners discuss, develop, invent, and implement a plan for making informed personal economic decisions about renewable resources.

Students practice reading comprehension strategies. In this literacy and science lesson, students read a non-fiction article about wood and locate main ideas and details. Students construct a card game using information taken from the text.

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

In this wood products lesson, young scholars walk to a forest near their school where they sit by themselves for a few minutes and quietly observe their surroundings. Students brainstorm wood or wood by products, discuss everything we...

Students complete a word sort to discover the relationship of tree resources. In this tree resource lesson, students examine information from the word sort and the book "Be a Friend to Trees" by Patricia Lauber. Finally, students create...

Students problem-solve how to log five acres. Working in pairs, they construct models of logging sites before and after the trees are harvested. they paint their models and include other environmental details.

Students explore ways in which ethanol can be created using alternate energy sources.

Young scholars identify leaves for an art project and create a collage. In this leaf lesson, students review leaf characteristics. Young scholars use leaves to create a collage of an animal or creature. Students write recipes of leaves...

Students explore the process of harvesting maple syrup. In this science and history activity, students make their own maple syrup and create a picture book that shows the Native American and American pioneer methods of making the syrup.