Elementary Teaching Resources

Climate Change and Our Forests

Suitability Grades 5-7

Learn how climate change is affecting our forests and how our forests and the wood products we produce from our forests hold the key to mitigating the effects of climate change.

Resource kit includes: lesson plan, activity sheets, posters, narrated slide show on DVD, teacher background information, glossary, curriculum links, and a link to our interactive website. Students will have fun calculating how environmentally friendly their school is and calculating their own homes carbon footprint.


Check our Climate Change and our Forests website on-line at:
www.forest-education.info/teaching/climate_change.html

Download the Resource Kit

Download the Poster

Download Climate Change and our Forests Extension Activities

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Download the narrated slide show (20.6 Mb)




BC’s Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic: Today and Tomorrow

Suitability Grades 4-7

Learn all about the causes and affects of BC’s mountain pine beetle epidemic.

Resource kit includes: DVD, lesson plans, activity sheets, posters, along with lodgepole pine bark, mountain pine beetles and blue stained wood samples.


Download the Teachers Background

Download the Lesson Plan

Download the Activity Sheets

Download the Overheads

Download the Poster (inside)

Download the Poster (outside)

Check out the resource on-line at www.beetleinfo.com
(Includes video, beetle facts, activities, etc.), or
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