Nonformal

firefighters helped battle a wildfire

Learn About Forests: Living with Fire

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading outreach events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners explore the role of fire in ecosystems and conduct a wildfire safety inspection of the site.

Learn About Forests: Make Your Own Paper

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners experience the magic of the paper-making process and the value of trees as a natural resource.

Learn About Forests: Nature’s Skyscrapers

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Using simple tools, learners calculate the height of a tree and find out why foresters measure trees.

Learn About Forests: Plant a Tree

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners identify benefits we receive from trees and participate in a tree-planting event.

Learn About Forests: Seeking Sustainability

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners investigate connections between forests and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Learn About Forests: Trees in Trouble

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners assess trees for signs of their health and recognize symptoms of unhealthy trees.

Learn About Forests: Water Wonders

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners model a water cycle and discover its importance for plants and animals.

Spiderweb at sunrise light in the forest

Web of Life

By conducting research and modeling a food web, students take a close look at a forest ecosystem and discover ways that plants and animals are connected to one another.

Middle Asia and thousands Milky Way stars. Small part of Earth disk furnished by NASA/JPL ( http://visibleearth.nasa.gov ), stars and everything else are my astronomy work.

Discover Diversity

Students imagine that they are visitors from outer space, viewing life on Earth for the first time. By describing in minute detail all the life they find in a small plot of land, they will become more aware of the diversity and abundance of life.

Photo of colorful drawing: Autumn landscape, trees with yellow, orange and red leaves

The Closer You Look

Even though students may be very familiar with trees, they may not have thought much about the actual structure of a tree. In this activity, your students will go outdoors or view pictures to take a closer look at trees and their parts.