Use this site for extension research and station assignments as indicated

Video Station

Life Science Plants Video Link

Birth of a Forest Video Link

Assignment questions

Computer Lab Web Site

Assignment:

• Start a heading in your journal entitled Shades of the Green Earth Web Quest.

• Visit the web quest site (linked below) and write the main topic of each page you visit through the site in a sub heading, and then write two "right there" questions and the answers for each page you visit. Try to visit as many pages from this site as you can, following a sub-topic. 10 to 20 entries seems about right for two computer lab sessions.

• When you are finished, you may write any questions you still have about forests in your journal (Leahy's class has a "Ws" section on the KWHL)

Shades of Green Web Quest

Word Bank in Progress

Maps and Tools:

World Map of Forest Types

Regional Maps

National Geographic Conservation Maps

E-nature Field Guides

What tree is that?

Articles:

Wikipedia article on Forests

Websites

Backyard Naturalist from National Geographic (link to other expeditions from this lesson site)

Expedition Hall

National Geographic Deforestation Site

Some questions to think about

What is a forest?

How do trees (and plants) grow?

How is the forest an interdependent system?

What are the different types of forests?

What kind of forest do we have here in Washington?

How are forests related to our lives?

What is a Biome?

More links:

Trees:

What tree is that?

Kids for Trees

Wonderful world of Trees

Olympic National Park

Sites to explore: (various reading levels)

Forest Biome-evolution and history

Flora and Fauna of the Northwest

Temperate Rain Forests

EduGreen

U.S. Forest Service Kids Page

Natural Inquirer

Exploring Other Environments