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The e-library
contains references to a range of books, CD-roms and videos.
Also check the 'Links' pages for references to electronic
materials.
 Project
Learning Tree: Environmental Education
Activity Guide
The
Forests of Europe
The
Good Seed Guide
Trees,
Hedges and Water
Celebrating
Irish Forests
Tree
Day
Forest
Tree Species in Turkey
Forest
Fun
Meetings
with Remarkable Trees
FINLAND (mainly
in Finnish and Swedish)
On
Expedition in the Forest
A
Forest Day at School
My
Tree: Instructions for the Teacher
Products
from Trees
My
Birds
Tree
Species
To
the School Forest
SWEDEN (mainly
in Swedish)
With
the Class in the Forest of Forestry
Learning
with Paper
Children's
Poems about Nature
Activity
Plan 1998 - 2000 for Forests in Schools
Bland
stubbar och kottar med barnen i mulleskogen
The
Newspaper in the Forest
Children's
Poetry about Forests
Greener
Forests
(available
in English)
Videos
CD
Project
Learning Tree:
Environmental Education Activity Guide |
| Using
the forest as a window on the world, Project Learning Tree
aims to increase students’ understanding of our complex
environment and stimulate critical and creative thought.
Their comprehensive activity guide contains
hundreds of activities arranged under 5 themes:
Diversity, Interrelationships, Systems, Structure
and Scale, and Patterns and Change.
Areas such as science, language, social studies,
art, music and physical education are integrated into
these 5 themes.
Each activity is clearly presented and highlights
skills and concepts, materials required and time needed.
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| Target Groups: Teachers
(pre-school to Grade 8) |
| Country: USA |
| Language: English |
| Year of issue: 1993 |
| Number of pages: 402 |
Publisher/available
from:
American Forest Foundation, Project Learning Tree,
1111 19th Street NW, Suite 780, Washington DC
20036 |
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| The
Forests of Europe |
| This is
part of an educational kit called Tellus produced by the Conseil Européen
des Jeunes Agriculteurs (CEJA) or European Council of Young
Farmers represents the voice of young farmers in Europe. The
Tellus kit explores the agricultural origin of everyday
products, the great diversity of European agriculture and the
realities of the farming world. Part of the materials deal
with forestry. The materials have been produced in 11
European languages and can be easily accessed from the website
below. Choose your language, go into the Teachers' pages
and look for Book 5 on Forestry. The book looks at the history
of forests, the different kinds of forests in Europe, the
uses of wood as well as the various threats to
forests. It also contains a selection of interesting
maps and graphs. |
| Target Groups: Pupils
(primary school: 9-11 years) |
| Language: English,
French, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Italian,
Portuguese, Dutch, German |
| Year of issue: 2002 |
| Number of pages: 36 |
Publisher/available
from: CEJA
website
http://www.ceja.educagri.fr |
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| The
Good Seed Guide |
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A
comprehensive guide that claims to contain all you need to
know about growing trees from seed.
To assist with seed identification the guide
distinguishes between different kinds of seeds: nuts,
fleshy fruits, winged seeds and conifers.
It also contains a detailed section on growing
trees from seed.
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Author:
Stokes,
J. and Hand, K. |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and pupils (primary and secondary school) |
| Country: UK |
| Language: English |
| Number of pages: 64 |
Publisher/available
from:
The
Tree Council,
51 Catherine Place, London, SW1E 6DY. UK
ISBN
0-904853-01-2
www.treecouncil.org.uk |
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| Trees,
Hedges and Water |
|
This
book looks at the impact of non-forest trees on water
resources. Developed out of a partnership between four
European organisations (in Austria, Spain, France and
Ireland) it explores in detail the impact of farmland
trees and hedges on water resources, especially droughts
and floods.
It also considers what traditional knowledge can
offer for present-day management.
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| Author: Pointereau,
P. and team |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and pupils (senior school) |
| Language: English |
| Year of issue: 2000 |
| Number of pages: 32 |
Publisher/available
from:
ISBN
2-9509837-2-3
Solagro: solagro@solagro.asso.fr
An Taisce: coord@antaisce.org |
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Tree Day |
| A
resource pack containing a CD-ROM of both the Irish and
English versions of an activity pack on trees for primary
schools. The pack contains notes for teachers,
worksheets for all primary school levels, experiments for
children, guidleines for field trips as well as additional
information on trees for integrated project work. The Tree
Day Resource Pack is also available in printed
form. |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and pupils (primary school) |
| Country: Ireland |
| Language: English
and Irish |
|
Publisher/available
from:
Tree Council of Ireland
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
Tel +353 1 6790699 or 6799314
Fax: +353 1 6799457
Also available on the web at www.coillte.ie/learn_about_trees/index.htm |
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| Celebrating
Irish Forests |
A
full-colour production that explores the interconnectness
of a forest ecosystem.
With beautiful colour photographs the book explores
various elements associated with forests such as water,
landscape, people, spirituality, farmers, commerce and
sustainability.
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Author:
Convery,
F. J. |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and pupils (all ages) |
| Country: Ireland |
| Language: English |
| Number of pages: 56 |
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Publisher/available
from:
ISBN
0 951861239
An Taisce
Tailors Hall, Back Lane, Dublin 8
Tel +353 1 45 41 819
www.antaisce.org
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| Forest
Tree Species in Turkey |
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An
excellent publication with colour pictures introducing
over 20 forest species.
The book includes pictures of bark, leaves and
fruit of each tree as well as maps indicating distribution.
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| Target Groups: Teachers (Children and
youngsters from preparatory school to secondary school)
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| Country: Turkey |
| Language: English |
| Year of issue: 2000 |
| Number of pages: 24 |
| Publisher/available
from: Training
Department of General Directorate of Forestry |
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egt@ogm.gov.tr
www.ogm.gov.tr
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| Forest
Fun |
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This
handbook offers teachers a selection of well-tried ideas
and practical activities for use in a forest. Most of the
activities are short and although they have been developed
in South Africa for use in an indigenous forest they can
easily be adapted.
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Author:
Bruce
Greig (compiling ideas from teachers)
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| Target Groups: Teachers
(primary school) |
| Country: South
Africa |
| Language: English |
| Number of pages: 36 |
Publisher/available
from:
Share-Net
P O Box 394, Howick, 3290, South Africa
sharenet@futurenet.co.za |
| Meetings
with Remarkable Trees |
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This
beautiful book of British tree portraits describes 66
special trees remarkable for their age, size, shape or
history. Accompanied by excellent colour
photographs, the tree portraits are grouped according to
their 'personalities' thus there are travellers, shrines,
fantasies and survivors. It has been described as
entrancing, readable, intelligent and 'a book of
translucent beauty'.
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| Author: Thomas
Packenham |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and pupils (senior school) |
| Language: English |
| Year of issue: 1996 |
| Number of pages: 254 |
Publisher/available
from:
ISBN
1-84188-086-8
Cassell Paperbacks, London |
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FINLAND
Metsän
oppimispolku
På upptäcktsfärd i Skogen
On Expedition in the Forest |
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This
book describes a model for education concerning forests
and trees. It will help teachers to challenge young
learners to learn about many new aspects of the forest.
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Author: Arjanne,
S., Hulden, P., Leiononen, M., Liimola, A., Lähdesmäki,
S., Pirttilä |
| Target Groups: Teachers
(children from preparatory to secondary school) |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Finnish
and Swedish |
| Year of issue: 2000 |
| Number of pages: 64 |
Publisher/available
from:
The
Finnish Forest Association
Salomonsgatan 17 B, 001000 - Helsinki, Finland
Mr.
Jussi Akkanen
jussi.akkanen@smy.fi |
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A
Forest Day at School
En Skogsdag i Skolan |
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This
book guides teachers in preparing for a day in the forest.
It
suggests several activities and introduces topics, which
can be integrated in the teaching about forests. It also
provides advice on how to prepare and choose the day for
such an excursion.
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Author:
Pirkko
Kara et al. |
| Target Groups: Teachers
(primary school) |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue:
1995 |
| Number of pages: 27 |
Publisher/available
from:
The
Finnish Forest Association
Salomonsgatan 17 B, 001000 - Helsinki, Finland
Mr.
Jussi Akkanen
jussi.akkanen@smy.fi |
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My
Tree: Instructions for the Teacher
Mitt Träd |
| This
booklet provides thorough guidance on how to plant a tree
and look after it. Excellent project for biology.
|
| Author: Ilara
Pittilä |
| Target Groups: Teachers
(primary school) |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1994 |
| Number of pages: 9 |
Publisher/available
from:
The
Finnish Forest Association
Salomonsgatan 17 B, 001000 - Helsinki, Finland
Mr.
Jussi Akkanen
jussi.akkanen@smy.fi |
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Products
from Trees
Puusta Jalosteeksi
Produkter av Träd |
| This
book takes a detailed look at the products that we get
from trees.
There is much detail on the processing of these
products.
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| Author: Tero
Lukkari et al. |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and senior school pupils |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Finnish
and Swedish |
| Year of issue:
1999 |
| Number of pages: 74
(Finnish) 66 (Swedish) |
Publisher/available
from:
The
Finnish Forest Association
Salomonsgatan 17 B, 001000 - Helsinki, Finland
Mr.
Jussi Akkanen
jussi.akkanen@smy.fi |
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My
Birds
Mina Fåglar |
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This
book provides instructions on how to build different bird
boxes – a perfect school project!
It explains how to place the boxes and describes
which boxes will attract certain kinds of birds.
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| Authors: Tom
Ahlström |
| Target Groups: Teachers
(primary school) |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1995 |
| Number of pages: 14 |
| Publisher:
Skogscentralen Skogskultur |
Tree
Species
Puulajit
Våra Trädslag |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Finnish
and Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1996 |
| Number of pages: 43 |
Publisher:
Suomen Matsäyhdistys
The
Finnish Forest Association
Salomonsgatan 17 B, 001000 - Helsinki, Finland
Mr.
Jussi Akkanen jussi.akkanen@smy.fi |
To
the School Forest
Koulu metsään! |
| Country: Finland |
| Language: Finnish |
| Year of issue: 1998 |
| Number of pages: 15 |
Publisher:
Suomen Matsäyhdistys
The
Finnish Forest Association
Salomonsgatan 17 B, 001000 - Helsinki, Finland
Mr.
Jussi Akkanen
jussi.akkanen@smy.fi
SWEDEN
With the Class in the Forest of Forestry |
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This
book is a collection of activities and exercises for the
forest.
The purpose of the book and its activities is to
give the students an insight into how we use our renewable
resources.
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|
Author: Ann
Löfving-Henriksson, Gerd Mattsson |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1992 |
| Number of pages: 40 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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Lära
med Papper
Learning with Paper
| This
book contains ideas for exercises for primary school
students for studying the paper and its qualities. |
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Author: Kjell
Hermansson et. al.
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Target Groups: Teachers
(children from preparatory to secondary school) |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Number of pages: 52 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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| Children's
Poems about the Nature |
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This
book is a result of “A day of the Forest” where
children where inspired to express their experiences with
the forest in poems and drawings. This
booklet contains a selection of more than 500 drawings and
poems by children.
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| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1998 |
| Number of pages: 47 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se
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| Activity
Plan 1998-2000 for Forests in Schools |
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This
is a plan for the work of Forest in Schools during
1998-2000. It takes into account marketing, the aims, the
development of competence, international contacts,
economy, administration and management.
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Author: Bo
Nilsson et al. |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Number of pages: 5 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
| Bland
stubbar och kottar med barnen i mulleskogen |
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The
purpose of this book is to inspire parents, teachers and
other adults to to go out into nature with children. This
book will teach the adults how to combine play and
teaching, and thereby make the many new impressions more
manageable for children.
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Author: Stina
Johansson |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1990 |
| Number of pages: 160 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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| The
Newspaper in the Forest |
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This
is a newspaper for youngsters concerning the forests of
Sweden. It
informs the youngsters of the facts about the paper and it
invites them to make one themselves.
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Author: Göran
Suebnko |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1992 |
| Number of pages: 15 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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Barns
Dikter om Skogen
Children's Poetry about Forests |
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This
book is a collection of activities and exercises for the
forest.
The purpose of the book and its activities is to
give the students an insight into how we use our renewable
resources.
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Author: Samuelsson,
G. and Persson, L. |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
| Year of issue: 1998 |
| Number of pages: 46 |
Publisher/available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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Greener
Forests |
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A
beautiful colour production that covers themes such as
humans and the forest, life in the forest, production and
environment in combination.
The book concludes with an interesting and detailed
case study of farming and forest management.
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Author: De
Jong, J., Larsson-Stern, M. & Liedholm, H. |
| Target Groups: Teachers
and high school pupils |
| Country: Sweden |
| Language: English |
| Year of issue: 1999 |
| Number of pages: 208 |
Publisher/available
from:
National
Board of Forestry
S55183 Jönköping, Sweden
sksforlag.order@svo.se
www.gronareskog.nu |
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| Videos |
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1.
Skurt om Skogen
2. I Skogen med Skurt
3. Skogen i Skolen - en presentation
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| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
Available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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| CD |
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Min
Skog My Forest
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| Country: Sweden |
| Language: Swedish |
Available
from:
Skogen i
Skolen
UnivEx, Umeå Universitet, S-901
87 Umeå
billy.ederlof@univex.umu.se |
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