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Learn About Forests: Tree Cookies

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners examine cross-sections of trees and infer from a tree’s growth rings.

Learn About Forests

Engage middle school-aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and sustainable forest management with these free ready-to-use activities to engage youth in learning about sustainable forest management.

Thermometer Sun 40 Degres. Hot summer day. High Summer temperatures

Burning Issues

Students graph changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) over the course of several decades and identify possible reasons for those changes. They also explore the relationship among CO2, the Earth’s climate, and wildland fires.

Group of multi-ethnic people, people with differing abilities , volunteers with garbage bags cleaning park area

Helping Hands

Students plan and, if possible, carry out a service-learning project that focuses on making positive environmental changes in their community.