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Forest Education Resources

Available soon on the Learn Forestry Website :

• 2009 Forestry Week Lesson " The Importance of our Community Watersheds" – lessons and resources under "Lesson plans- Forestry Week")
• A new "Watershed" poster was developed by COFI South Forest Education to accompany the 2009 Forestry Week lesson above. To download a copy, go to the Learn Forestry website, and follow the links above.                             

Feature Books:

• The Logger's Alphabet  by Terrianne Hawkings
  Self-published (2009)

  From A-Z, this BC-based book covers many aspects of forest harvesting, from skidders and excavators to reforestation and safety. Suitable for mid-elementary grades with great close-up photos of big machines sure to catch students' interest!!

  Copies of the book were distributed this spring to all Southern Interior elementary schools, courtesy of the Council of Forest Industries (Southern Operations) Forest Education. (For further information, contact Terrianne at: thawkings@sd73.bc.ca) 

Teacher Resources

• "The Carbon Cycle" poster from the California Forest Foundation, shows the forestry link to the cycle, with carbon released through fires, carbon absorbed by our growing forests and carbon that remains stored in wood products.
  www.calforests.org/pdf/carbon-poster.pdf
• PBS's Zoom Science activity website. Includes "Biome in a Baggie", a growing experiment creating a micro- environment.
  http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/
• Water activities and lessons for teaching units
  www.cln.org/themes/water.html
• Penn State forest education activities
  http://sftrc.cas.psu.edu/FromWoods.html
• Florida Forestry Assoc. lessons
  www.floridaforest.org/teaching_tools.php
• US watershed poster showing detailed use of watersheds.
  http://water.usgs.gov/outreach/Posters/water_use/images/WaterUseGradeschFront.jpg
• Climate change poster for Southwestern BC for from Natural Resources Canada
  http://adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/posters/bc/poster_e.php
• Watershed lesson plans 
  www.deq.state.ms.us/MDEQ.nsf/pdf/NPS_WatershedLP/$File/WatershedLessonPlans.pdf?OpenElement

Teacher & Student Web Links:

• Learn Forestry Website Forest Education lessons, links & resource materials, videos, bibliographies, teacher kits and more.
  www.learnforestry.com 
• Council of Forest Industries Forest Education This newly- updated forest education website provides info on forestry terms and facts, careers, virtual tours and resources, etc. Find out what presentations and materials are available from BC's Northern Interior forest educator, if you teach in that region!!
  www.forest-education.info
• Ministry of Forests & Range site- "The Treebook"- useful for BC tree ID & forest ecosystem research.
  www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/
• How Stuff Works-lots of info about how things work, including all about wildfire
  http://science.howstuffworks.com/wildfire.htm
• Tree Canada's resource info
  http://www.treecanada.ca/site/?page=home&lang=en
• Life After Fire- an interactive website for students
  www.fs.fed.us/r1/lolo/resources-natural/wildlife/after-fire/index.htm
• Natural Resources Canada student and teacher info under "Forests" or "Environment" headings.
  www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/studelev/index-eng.php

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