Recommended Links for Student Research

The BC Forestry Climate Change Working Group site provides information on what climate change is, on healthy forests and carbon and how wood products help, bioenergy, etc. and has a five minute video, "Tackle Climate Change, Use Wood", that can be viewed.
www.bcclimatechange.ca  

Canadian Forestry Association : teacher guides/lesson plans for past and present National Forest Week booklets, eg. Fire, air, endangered species. Also includes info on the parts of a tree, provincial arboreal emblem descriptions and feature articles on nature.
www.canadianforestry.com

Council of Forest Industries - Forest Education resource site, featuring teaching kits such as BC's Mountain Pine Beetle (Elem. and Sec.), Climate Change and Our Forests (Elem. and Sec.) BC Forest Products for the World (Sec.) and Sustainable Forest Management in BC (Sec.). www.cofi.org/educationcareers/whats-new/

This Council on Forestry Promotion and Improvement site (Eastern Canada) outlines the many career opportunities in forestry. Includes forest professional videos, forestry facts and product info, a career search feature on forest sector opportunities and an entertaining forest professionals' video under "Tree TV".
www.goforestry.ca

Forest Innovation Investment's "Naturally Wood" site features sections on BC's sustainable forest management, wood products, tree species, fact pages and a section on Climate Change and BC Forests and Forest products. 
www.naturallywood.com

Georgia-Pacific- This forest education site is packed with information about what a forest is, wildlife in the forest, water, energy, paper recycling, the forester's job, etc. with lessons and activities arranged in a well-designed format.
www.gp.com/EducationalinNature/

Idaho Forest Products - Includes lessons, free materials, tree facts and info on the paper-making process. This site provides kids and teachers with info on wood products, forest health, tree cookies showing the parts of a tree, a forest glossary and links to other resources.
www.idahoforests.org

Kentucky Educational Television
Electronic field trips, career info, a glossary of forest terms and tree product info are some of the topics at the KET site.
www.ket.org/trips/forest/products.htm

Kids Konnect - A teachers' site with information on numerous topics organized into alphabetical and subject listings. Look under science heading for "trees".
www.kidskonnect.com

Learn Forestry - Great resource for teachers. Okanagan forest education site with teacher resources, lesson plans, teaching units, bibliography lists, forest educators' newsletters, links to industry associations and websites and more!!
www.learnforestry.com

Model Forest Network- Lists Model Forests across Canada and the research they do, including projects on the boreal forest, climate change, biodiversity, water, wildlife, etc.
www.modelforest.net

Real Trees For Kids - A tree farming site that includes graded subject material (Gr. 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) with topics such as tree classification, tree species, the life cycle of a tree, etc. Lots of great information for students presented in an interesting format.
www.realtrees4kids.org

Royal BC Museum Time Machine- To find out about BC's history, enter the "Time Machine", then click on "BC Resource Development- Forestry" and read about the history of the forest industry in BC as well as about other resources such as mining, fishing and agriculture.     
www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-484B076/exhibits/timemach/main.htm        

Smokey the Bear Fire Prevention site- Information, games and videos for students on fire prevention, fire suppression and wildfires, the fire triangle, fire's affect on ecosystems, etc.
www.smokeybear.com

Tree Canada- Under "Kids and Teachers" or "Trees, The Environment and You", access info on provincial arboreal emblems with pictures of the tree, bark and needles for each of the trees, tree ID, tree trivia, tree planting guide and a description of Canada's Forests.
www.treecanada.ca

University of Illinois Extension Services- "A Walk in the Woods" is an interesting site for elementary teachers and students. Contains "Walk in the Woods" video clip, nature notes, links and resources for environmental studies
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/01.html

The Finnish forest company, UPM, showcases a virtual interactive tour of a forest on their forest education site, focusing on harvesting, reforestation, forest health and many other aspects of forest management.
www.upmforestlife.com  

US Arbour Day Foundation- Check out "Trees Make a Difference- Life of a Tree", which shows an animation of the inside of the tree with all its layers. Or try "Kids Make a Difference- Benefits of Trees- Tree Guide- Anatomy of a Tree or Layers of the Forest".
www.arborday.org/kids/carly

Virtual Museum Site : Great resource- an interactive site on early logging in B.C., including historical photographs of logging camps, workers and communities, interview clips with loggers and retired foresters about their memories, an interactive walk through of an old logging camp, etc.
www.camptocommunity.ca/english/

The Wonderful World of Trees has forest information for teachers and students under topics such as biodiversity, protection, tree ID, and trees through the seasons and includes lessons, puzzles and experiments as well as background information.
www.domtar.com/arbre/english