Science

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.

Close-up Texture of Eagle's Wing

Charting Biodiversity

Students explore the amazing diversity of life on Earth and discover how plants and animals are adapted for survival. This activity helps students understand why there are so many different species and teaches them the value of biodiversity.

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.

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.