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Forest Education Resources

Learn Forestry Website:

• 2010 Forestry Week Lesson (Elementary Level) "Climate Change" for Primary or Intermediate grades. Includes power point slide show, curricular connections, teacher website listing and student activity pages.  (See the Learn Forestry website under "Lesson plansà Forestry Week".) 
• 2009 Forestry Week Lesson (Elementary Level) "The Importance of Our Community Watersheds" The watershed forestry week lesson is also up on the website, along with a watershed poster  developed by COFI South Forest Education to accompany the lesson. (To access a pdf copy of the poster or to see the complete catalogue of Forestry Week lessons and resources , go to "Lesson Plansà Forestry Week- 2009 "Watersheds" at www.learnforestry.com )
• 2008 Forestry Week Lesson (Elementary) "The Fire Story- An Unpredictable Truth" New fire activity pages are available with the 2008 lesson on fire, along with overheads, activity board template, fire poster and web list.
• 2004 Force of Fire (Primary,Intermediate & Secondary) For additional fire lessons and resources, look down the Forestry Week Lesson list to 2004 for the Force of Fire kits that were developed, containing a lesson,  overheads and additional resources.

Teacher Resources:

• Climate Change Resource Binders Two resource kits, "Climate Change and our Forests" (Intermediate) and "Climate Change- Our Forests, Our Future" (Secondary) were developed in 2009 by the Council of Forest Industries, in partnership with Forest Innovation Investment, and distributed to BC schools in Sept. 2009.  The kits provide teachers with new tools to help students learn about the impact of climate change on our environment and how our forests and its wood products are vital to mitigating those effects. 

Each resource kit includes lesson plans, narrated PowerPoint, teacher background information and activities, where students can calculate the carbon footprint of their school and home, discuss the benefits of building with wood, design their own climate change machine and learn how they can personally take action to tackle climate change.

• Forestry Fact Booklets & Fun in the Forest Workbooks
  Canadian Women in Timber

Illustrated with appealing characters and artwork, the Canadian Women in Timber's Forestry Fact booklet features Splinter the Woodpecker once again and provides a fun way to teach students about the science and ecology of BC forests, using forest facts. Available at a nominal cost on the CWIT website, along with "Fun in the Forest" Splinter workbooks, which are also available for download online, at: www.canadianwomenintimber.com   
Suitable for mid-elementary students.

• The Forest Foundation

 "Talk about Trees" (Lessons 1-9)
A great source for forest lessons, with topics such as Forest Health, Sustainable Resources, Waste Not- Want Not, Nature's Treasure Chest, Forest Carbon and Our Climate and Forest Watersheds. Includes lessons, vocabulary and student activity pages and graphics.
www.talkabouttrees.org

Teacher & Student Web Links:

• www.learnforestry.com   The Okanagan-based Learn Forestry Website contains Forest Education lessons, links & resource materials, bibliographies, teacher kits and lessons as well as locally-developed forestry posters for download.
• www.forest-education.info Council of Forest Industries A BC forest education website with info on forestry terms and facts, careers, virtual tours, teacher resources and more.  
• www.bcclimatechange.ca The BC Forestry Climate Change Working Group site provides information about climate change, bioenergy, healthy forests & carbon and how wood products store carbon, as well as a five minute video, "Tackle Climate Change, Use Wood", that can be viewed. 
• www.naturallywood.com 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 & BC Forests and Forest products. 
• www.goforestry.ca The Council on Forestry Promotion and Improvement site from 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.pacficloggingcongress.com See the Pacific Forest Foundation's new career video, "This Is My Office" on their website, promoting the benefits of a career in the forest industry and an office in the great outdoors. Entertaining and well worth watching!! 
• www.pc.gc.ca Parks Canada has lots of resource information for teachers- this link connects to information about BC's old growth Inland Rainforest in Mt. Revelstoke National Park. 
• www.pc.gc.ca Another Parks Canada link- this one a primer for teachers and students on the mountain pine beetle.

 

 

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