Tree ID
Click here for an easy-to-use guide to identifying common trees.
Forest Trees of Florida publication
Goods from the Woods
"If Trees Could Talk"?
http://www.foresthistory.org/Education/Curriculum/index.html
http://www.foresthistory.org/Education/index.html
Download free posters, coloring book, learning guides
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The Life & Times of Loblolly Pine tracks the lifecycle of a tree. Students can see the personal history of a tree and how looking at the rings of a tree helps discover what kind of life it has had.
Download The Life & Times poster
Helping Our Forests teaches students about forest management and how forest professionals use science to mimic Mother Nature.
Download Helping our Forests poster
We thank International Paper for making these posters possible.
Technology in the Mills
The forest products industry is very proactive in applying technology to help increase efficiency while reducing environmental impact. Many factors have accelerated the industry's transition to a high-tech industry on the cutting edge of information technology. Learn about all the new technologies from this educational learning guide, provided by the Temperate Forest Foundation.
Download the Mill Tech Learning Guide
Additional learning guides
- Florida Wildfire Prevention Teacher's Guide (grades 4–12)
- Living on the Edge in Florida Teacher's Guide (grades 9–12)
- Fire in Florida's Ecosystems (grades 3–12)
- Forest Facts and Classroom Activity (grades 3–5)
Coloring Book
This fun coloring book can bring the forest into the classroom for your students.
You can download the individual pages…
- We get fresh water from the forest
- The forest helps clean the air
- The forest gives homes and food to many animals
- The forest makes it possible for us to have homes too
- Trees start out very small…
- and grow very large
- The leaves on some trees change colors and drop off in the fall
- Some trees have thin leaves called needles that stay green all year
- Trees change every season
- Color the tree and draw a line from the word to the part of the tree it names
- People go into the forest and harvest trees
- They turn wood they get into things we can use
- You see things made from trees everyday
- Try to find someof the things we get from trees
- People plant trees everyday to help the forest survive
- Nature helps many trees grow without being planted by people
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