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Forestry/Natural
Resources Lesson Plans
Kindergarten through
Fifth Grade
Region Codes: PA = Pennsylvania;
ENA = Eastern North America; NA = North America
Note: North America includes Canada, the United States of America,
and Mexico
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Title |
Grades |
Keywords |
Region |
| Forest
Stewardship |
K |
stewardship,
forest management |
NA |
| Maple
Syrup |
K |
maple
syrup |
ENA |
| The
History of Maple Syrup Production |
K-3 |
sugaring,
maple tree, sap, history |
ENA |
| Maple
Syrup Production |
K-3 |
sugaring,
maple tree, sap, natural resources, maple syrup |
ENA |
| Seasons of Trees |
1-4 |
leaves, tree, trunk, bark, leaf formation, seasonal change |
ENA |
| Uses
of a Tree |
1-2 |
trees,
wood, paper, sap, food |
NA |
| Trees
and Their Parts |
2-3,
remedial reading |
tree,
trunk, crown or canopy, deciduous, evergreen, photosynthesis,
fencing, regeneration, deer grazing |
NA |
| What Can a Leaf Be? |
2-5 |
leaf, compound, simple, tree species, art project |
NA |
| The
Giving Tree |
3 |
consumerism,
wants versus needs, benefits of trees, wood products |
NA |
| Leaf ID & Leaf Bingo |
3 |
leaf/tree identification, terminology, dichotomy key |
ENA |
| Let's
Start Growing |
3 |
endosperm,
embryo, seed coat, dormant, renewable resource, germinate |
NA |
| Recycling |
3 |
paper
recycling |
NA |
| Tree
Growth |
3 |
tree
growth, annual rings, plant science |
NA |
| Tree Terminology |
3 |
leaf/tree identification, terminology |
ENA |
| Wood |
3-4,
remedial reading |
wood,
renewable natural resources, fibrous |
NA |
| Please
the Trees, But Not These, Please |
3-6 |
tree
growth, invasive plants, tree competition |
NA |
| Forest
History for Kids |
3-6 |
trenches,
slag pile, stumps, regrowth |
NA |
| Build a Forest |
4 |
watershed, forest layers, canopy, understory, shrub layer, forest floor, shade tolerant, non-shade tolerant |
NA |
| The
Community Forest |
4 |
community
forests, urban forestry, tree planting |
NA |
| Create
a Community Tree Tour |
4 |
tree
identification, tree natural history, map making, recycling |
NA |
| Harvesting Timber |
4 |
harvesting, marking, felling, delimbing, skidding, bucking, loading |
NA |
| How
Old Is That Tree? |
4 |
phloem,
cambium, sapwood, heartwood, pith, dormant, drought, photosynthesis |
NA |
| Succession |
4 |
tree
harvesting, succession |
NA |
| Transpiration |
4 |
transpiration,
stomata |
NA |
| What is a Pennsylvania Forest? |
4 |
forests, temperate, hardwoods, softwoods, identification |
PA |
| You
Can Make Paper |
4 |
papermaking,
forest products, recycling |
NA |
| Poet Tree |
4-6 |
simple leaf, compound leaf, acrostic poem, shape poem |
PA |
| Seeing
a Tree |
4-6 |
shapes,
progressive rhythm, outline, abstract, dendrology, taxonomy,
kingdoms, species, deciduous, coniferous |
NA |
| Fun
with Forest Facts |
4-8 |
botany,
ecology, social studeis, plant identification, interactions
within ecosystems, forest resources |
ENA |
| Being
a Forest Steward |
5 |
nonrenewable
resource, renewable resource, stewardship |
NA |
| Forests
Are Renewable Resources |
5 |
renewable,
nonrenewable, resources |
NA |
| Silviculture |
5 |
siliviculture,
timber, harvest, clear-cut, diameter limit cut, eve aged stand,
high grading |
NA |
| Tree
Anatomy |
5 |
tree
anatomy, cambium, new wood, heartwood, inner bark, outer bark |
NA |
| We
Need Trees and Their Oxygen Cycle |
5 |
photosynthesis,
carbon dioxide, glucose, chloroplasts, oxygen, respiration,
stomata |
NA |
| A
Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, But a Fifth Grade Science Student
Does |
5-8 |
orienteering,
degree, quadrant, microhabitant |
NA |
| Arbor
Day Tree Planting Hot List |
5-8 |
Arbor
Day, tree planting |
NA |
| Dream
Park |
5-8 |
community
forest, urban forest, site, plant nursery, landscape architects,
design, forester |
NA |
| The
Man Who Planted Trees |
5-8 |
trees
and the environment, history, geography, French, language arts |
NA |
| Tree
Treasure Collage |
5-8 |
harvesting,
lumber, paper, veneer, wood products, solid wood, bark, cork,
wood chips, pulping, collage, medium, design, textures, balanced,
center of interest, unified |
PA |
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