Unit Overview


Unit focus Question
: How can we use our forests sustainably?
Sub Questions: What do forests mean to us?
How have forests changed over time?
How can we use our forests and ensure their long term health? What is forest stewardship?

 
Caring for our Forests - A Legacy of Stewardship
Lesson 1 Natural / Cultural Features & Mental Map home to school
Lesson 2 Five Themes of Geography
Lesson 3 Nature Journal
Lesson 4
Forests: Past, Present, and Future - A Forester's Presentation
Lesson 5 Forests and People - Uses of the Forest
Lesson 6 Reading the Forested Landscape (Read aloud, Activity, Slides)
Lesson 7 Sustainable Forest Use (Field Trip)
Lesson 8 Local Heroes: Marsh, Billings, Rockefellers
Culminating event ORIENTEERING ON MT. TOM
Final Products (Essay, Timeline, bookmark) and Unit Test
Service Component
Sustainability Essays printed in the VERMONT STANDARD
   

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