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Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers

Help youth discover careers in sustainable forestry and conservation. The Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers unit includes four hands-on, NGSS-aligned, instructional activities to help youth research forestry jobs.
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Teaching with i-Tree

Three hands-on activities that help middle and high school students discover and analyze the many ecosystem services that trees provide. Students use the i-Tree tool to analyze data they collected about the trees in their community.

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GreenSchools Investigations

Learn about the benefits of becoming a GreenSchool and how to form a Green Team and obtain equipment. Get suggestions for how students might conduct the investigations and why, and tips for collecting data.

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Focus on Forests

Students examine ecological systems of a forest; analyze interdependencies within a forest ecosystem; and explore factors, like fire, that shape the development of forests.

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Forests of the World

Global Connections: Forests of the World provides opportunities for high school teachers and students to gain an increased understanding of — and appreciation for — the diversity of global forests.

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Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live

Through eight hands-on activities, students explore current and future community environmental issues.
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Southeastern Forests & Climate Change

Designed for educators seeking to teach high school students about climate change impacts on forest ecosystems, the role of forests in sequestering carbon, and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to a changing climate.
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Exploring Environmental Issues: Biodiversity

In this PLT high school module, students learn that decisions about growth and development, energy use and water quality, and even human health, all rest to some extent on perspectives about biodiversity.

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