| Description of Resource: |
This
nine module middle school curriculum contains lesson plans about the
history of forests, the environment and their people, allowing students
to understand how to shape the future of people and their forests.
The curriculum contains free downloads of social studies activities
that are based upon archival materials. The centerpiece of
each module is a compilation of primary resources--documents, maps,
newspaper articles, oral histories or photographs--from which students
will be asked to gather, examine, and analyze information, and synthesize
insights. The extensive lesson plans are an excellent resource.
If
Trees Could Talk is correlated to National History and Social
Studies Standards
, as well as several individual state standards
. The curriculum also meets the indicators for the Guidelines
for Excellence developed by the North American Association
for Environmental Education (NAAEE).
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| Author/Producer: |
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Trees Could Talk was
produced by the Forest History Society in collaboration with Duke
University's Nicholas School of the Environment, North Carolina
State University, Project Learning Tree, and the North Carolina
Forestry Association. Funding was provided by the North Carolina
Division of Forest Resources and the USDA Forest Service through
the Urban & Community Forestry Grant Program; the Laird Norton
Endowment Foundation; the Bradley/Murphy Forestry & Natural
Resources Extension Trust, and the Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation.
The curriculum was developed by Dr. Marsha Alibrandi, Lucy Laffitte,
Kathleen Johnson and Cheryl Oakes, with assistance by Steve Anderson,
Charlotte Clark, Angela Baker Cloud, Sylvia Gill, Rita Hagevik,
Barbara Jean, Julia Kertz, Mark Megalos, Greg Morris, Rebecca Pruett,
Bob Robinson, Jennifer Swanson, and Susan Zachary. Web-site
was designed by En-Sight Group and Lucy Laffitte. |
