Learning Stations
During the one hour classroom visit, your coordinator will have your students rotate through each one of the four activities to prepare them for the forestry tour. Please provide four working stations (desktops, tables) and divide the class into four teams.
Tree Identification
Description
Students make leaf and branch color crayon rubbings of six native trees they will encounter on their tour. They label the rubbings with the tree’s name and note any distinguishing characteristics.
Wildlife Tracks
Description
Students are given replicas of a variety of wildlife tracks of animals (species) that live in the Pacific Northwest. Students press the tracks in clay to see what the tracks might look like on the ground.
Products from Trees
Description
Students are given a sorting board, 16 tree products and an answer sheet. The sorting board is divided into 4 categories; "Wood", "Wood Fiber", "Wood Chemicals & Tree Sap", and "Tree Nuts, Fruit &: Bark". They decide as a team which category each product falls under and place it there. After they have placed all the products, they fill out their answer sheet. When the classroom session is completed, teams are told which group determined the most forest products correctly.
Forest Layers
Description
Each student in the team is given a magnetic board, a container of magnets, and a worksheet. The magnetic board features a forest background that has been divided into four layers. Students use the magnets to label their forest layers, and place the various wildlife magnets in the layer where they believe that species would live. After each student has completed this task, they come together as a team and fill out the worksheet. Worksheets are reviewed at the end of the session.