Activities - best practices 

In this section you will find ideas for activities to learn about forests. Many involve field trips to your local forest. The activities have been divided according to the subjects they cover. Often though an activity will cover more than one subject.

Please send any ideas you may have for forest activities to us so they can be added to this section.

LEAF - presentation and best practises
Presentation of LEAF and LEAF activities!
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Follow a tree's carbon cycle online
The tree is a pine and it grows in Southern Finland in Hyytiälä. Shoose english language and try it yourselves!
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U.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service has posted a new website that encourages and helps young people to get outdoors.
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AskERIC Lesson Plans
AskERIC is an internet-based service providing educational information to teachers, librarians, parents, anyone interested in education. The AskERIC Lesson Plan collection contains more than 2000 lesson plans which have been submitted by teachers from all over the United States.
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Leaf and Bark Rubbings
Leaf Rubbings This is a quick and easy way of recording the shape of leaves, their veins and other details in the forest. Place the leaf, vein side uppermost, under a piece of white paper. Working on a hard surface, rub a wax crayon on its side over the paper immediately above the leaf using even pressure. The leaf impression will now appear.
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