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How Does Your Soil Stack Up?
Students examine the soil in their local area and create a soil profile. They record observations in the field and the classroom. They create their own display of the soil profile as well.
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No Magic Borders: Haleakala Style
Students discuss borders and boundaries. They discuss pollution and the fact that boundaries cannot stop pollution and that pollution affects even protected wildlife and plants. They participate in an activity in which they must place...
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Watershed Delineation
Students use topographic maps to delineate a watershed.In this ecology lesson, students draw the boundaries of a watershed onto a map using contour lines as a guide. Their resulting maps are used to evaluate their understanding.
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Pennsylvania Watersheds
Students identify the major watersheds of Pennsylvania. In this forestry lesson, students learn what a watershed is and are assigned one of the major watersheds of Pennsylvania. Groups then need to determine the boundaries of the...
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Does One Tree a Forest Make?
Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the school ground. They keep journals and write an essay.
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Forester
In this forester instructional activity, students illustrate a map that shows the types of forests growing in various parts of the country. They also identify six forest trees common to the area where they live and explain how both...
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Our Forests Need Fires?
Learners consider how forest fires are both damaging and beneficial to forests. For this earth science lesson, students are read the book Fire! In Yellowstone by Robert Ekey and watch "Fire Ecology" and "Two Sides of Fire" before...
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Forest Stewardship
Students go on a nature walk. In this forest stewardship lesson plan, students brainstorm a list of things found in the forest, go on a nature walk and discuss forest stewardship.
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Uses of a Tree
Students identify and explore the resources we use that come from trees. For this reading comprehension lesson, students sort word cards about resources that come from trees into groups based on the type of resource.
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A Walk in the Woods
Eighth graders observe and identify the different levels of the forest. In this forest zones lesson students observe, identify and name a variety of forest components and describe how humans impact the forest ecosystem.
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography
Students map data on employment in wood products manufacturing in Oregon counties. In this Oregon forest lesson, students discover the percentage of people employed in the forest manufacturing industry. Students create a box and whisker...
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Wisconsin Snapshots
Fourth graders study Wisconsin's culture and heritage. They research the state's symbols and identify leaves common to the Wisconsin area. They create a leaf booklet and visit the state park. They visit local farms and create nature maps...
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How Big Is A Tree?
Middle schoolers estimate the height of trees on the school campus, and measure their circumferences. They develop a map of trees on the school site, conduct their measurements, and record the results on a data table.
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Wood A Natural Renewable Resource
Students discuss the harvest of trees as a renewable resource. In this renewable resource lesson, students evaluate the importance of how man harvest trees and uses wood as a renewable resource.
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Living With Fire
Learners identify effects of treatment weather on behavior of a wildland fire. They view simulation game that predicts effects of forest management on fire behavior.
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N Cpedia: Pocosins
Pocosins are naturally occurring freshwater evergreen shrub bogs or wetlands of the southeastern coastal plains. In 1962 pocosins still covered nearly 2.25 million acres in North Carolina-accounting for almost three-quarters of the...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Forest Areas of the United States, 1901
A map from 1901 of the United States showing the principal forest regions. The map is color-coded to show heavily forested areas and areas where forests occur in more or less open areas.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Organized Protection Against Forest Fires, 1922
A map of the United States from the U. S. Department of Agriculture (1922) showing the funds distribution at the time dedicated to forest fire prevention compared to the funds needed to adequately protect forest land. The map shows areas...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Chestnut Blight, 1904 1922
A map of the United States from the U. S. Department of Agriculture (1923) showing the range of chestnut forests and extent of chestnut blight in the Northeast from 1904 to 1922.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Forest Regions, 1898
A map from 1898 of the United States showing the forest regions in the contiguous 48 states. "Fully one third of the timber cut in the world each year comes from the forests of the United States. Indeed, lumbering is carried on so...
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Maps Etc: Increasing Distance From Lumber Producers to Lumber Consumers, 1920
A map of the United States from the U. S. Department of Agriculture (1922) showing the increasing distance lumber had to travel to go from the production areas in the south and west to the consumption areas in the east. The map shows...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Western Forests and Woodlands, 1911
A map from 1911 of the United States showing the distribution of western forests and woodlands. Solid black represents continuous forests, dotted areas represent woodland, or areas that have a thin, scattered growth of forest vegetation.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Forest Map of the United States, 1910
A map from 1910 of the United States showing the forest regions of the Pacific, Rocky Mountains, Northern Forest in the Great Lakes and New England areas, Southern Forest along the Gulf and East Coast, and the Hardwood Forest. The map...
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Etc: Maps Etc: United States Economic Regions, 1900
A map from 1912 of the United States showing the principal industries of the region. The map is color-coded to show the areas of fishing grounds, industrial centers, coal mining areas, petroleum fields, and iron ore fields. This map...