Hands-on, interdisciplinary curriculum supports students in exploring the value of forests, environments, wildlife, water, air, energy, waste, climate change, invasive species, community planning, and more.
To learn about forests, several curriculum guides are available to provide engaging, hands-on activities, appropriate to various grade bands. Activities which are hands-on and investigation-based, making learning fun while also building skills, stimulating knowledge gains, and actively engaging students. They afford students the opportunity to learn through real experiences, rather than just reading or hearing about them. By educating students about economic, ecological, and social aspects of forestry issues, students gain crucial skills to learn how to think, not what to think.
High quality curriculum are designed to engage students of all ages – in formal and non-formal education settings – and suited to explore in both rural and urban environments. Many Project Based Learning curriculum are based on educational standards, developed by scientists, and reviewed and field-tested by educators.
Project based learning allows students to construct their own knowledge, making it easier for them to transfer and retain information. Encourages students’ active involvement in deciding what they want to study, and in completing a project. It “involves students in problem-solving and other meaningful tasks, allows students to work autonomously to construct their own learning, and culminates in realistic, student-generated projects.” This is because content is presented in a realistic, holistic way, rather than in fragments. Projects allow students to deal with content in a way that is personally relevant. Project based learning also accommodates diverse approaches to learning because it offers multiple ways for students to participate and to demonstrate their knowledge.
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Additional Forestry Curriculum