Canada's Forests: Vol. 1- Learning from the Past, Building for the Future

Elementary

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Canada’s Forests - Learning from the Past, Building for the Future explores Canada’s rich forest heritage and the development of sustainable forest practices to ensure healthy ecosystems. The resource takes a look at the past, present and future of Canada’s forests and forest industries. The lessons incorporate interactive, hands-on activities that help students to see how forest practices have evolved over Canada’s history and present an understanding of forest ecosystems. The resource contains a series of eight lessons, for this review we take a look at lessons one, three, five and seven.

 

Lesson 1- Trees in our Community – Past, Present and Future

Students observe trees in their community and participate in a class discussion about past and present patterns of trees and tree communities. Through creative writing, drawing or mapping exercises students are invited to share their observations. They explore the role that trees have played in the lives of local residents past and present and make predictions about what the community will look like in the future based on the patterns noted.

 

Lesson 3 – Harvesting Timber – Old Ways, New Ways     Students begin by discussing past and present logging practices; they gather information about logging tools which were used in the past and those that we use today. They record their findings and prepare to be interviewed by their peers.

Lesson 5 – Creating a Miniature Forest

Students participate in an outdoor forest mapping activity. They locate and observe an interesting patch of forest floor and note their observations. They identify parts of their mini forest ecosystem such as insects, climate and life cycles.

 

Lesson 7 – Paper making – A 2000-Year-Old Art

Students investigate the history of paper by constructing an illustrated timeline using the information provided. Based on their timeline, they research and write a brief story about the role that paper played in a specific place, at a specific time in history. They make their own recycled paper using the same basic concepts that have been used since it was first invented.

 

 

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