Career Education

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.

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.

a worker with a high visibility vest and a backpack operates a tablet alongside forestry tools in the middle of a forest.

Seeking Sustainability

Learners explore the concept of sustainability by examining the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, while also taking a look at some jobs involved in ensuring forest sustainability.

a worker with a high visibility vest and a backpack operates a tablet alongside forestry tools in the middle of a forest.

Monitoring Forest Health

Through a variety of health indicators, learners assess the health of a forest area and see how soil scientists, wildlife biologists, arborists, and other forest professionals monitor forests.

a worker with a high visibility vest and a backpack operates a tablet alongside forestry tools in the middle of a forest.

Who Works in this Forest?

As an introduction to some of the people who work in and on behalf of forests, learners research different forest sector careers to learn what it takes to perform these jobs.