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Okanagan/Shuswap Highlights
Debbie Sluggett (Educational Liaison: Bell Pole, Tolko, LP Canada, Downie, RCFC)
Jennifer Stewart (Educational Liaison: Tolko - Riverside)
Debbie Bazett (Forest Education Coordinator, COFI - Southern Operations)

“British Columbia Mountain Pine Beetle Teacher Resource Package”
May 2005

The BC Market Outreach Network in conjunction with the Council of Forest Industries Northern Operations Forest Education Manager, Chris Lear, developed a new intermediate teaching resource on the Mountain Pine Beetle. This resource package was sent to every school in British Columbia with intermediate grades (Gr. 4 – 7). With the spreading outbreaks of this bark beetle and the increasing awareness of its destruction on BC’s pine forests, the Market Outreach Network thought that it would be important to educate our students about this provincial epidemic. This teacher resource package includes lesson plans keyed to the learning outcomes of grades four though seven, student activity sheets, overheads, a video, posters, CD’s as well as samples of the mountain pine beetle and bark.

In addition, forest educators Debbie Sluggett and Jennifer Stewart, have included a general forest health lesson that can be used in conjunction with this beetle package. This additional resource was distributed to all schools in the interior of British Columbia with intermediate grades. This extra lesson package includes a full lesson plan with curricular connections to kindergarten through grade seven, a song CD, a forest health poster, a tree cookie and a sample of blue-stained wood. See www.learnforestry.com for the general health lesson plan added to Interior Binders.

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