Peppermint Beetle
Students explore their sense of smell and discover why smell is important to animals, including beetles and humans.
Nature and Education Centers
Learn About Forests: What’s In a Label?
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners discuss environmental, economic, and social criteria for forest certification.
Learn About Forests: Who Works In This Forest?
This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners discover a range of forest-related careers that help to maintain forest ecosystems.
Forest in the City
The trees in our communities provide many benefits: they improve air quality, store carbon, and conserve energy.
Environmental Health for All
Everyone has an equal right to a healthy environment—but does everyone have a healthy environment?
Decisions, Decisions
Decisions about community land use are complex and often involve many people in many ways. In this activity, students use trees as a backdrop to develop a land-use plan.
Family Activity: Adopt a Tree
Deepen awareness of individual trees over time and develop a greater understanding of the environment.
Family Activity: Evergreens in Winter
Touch, smell, see, hear, and taste winter using this activity.