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Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest

North Carolina's system of Educational State Forests has been developed to "teach children and adults about the complex, interdependent ecosystems which make up a forest and which can be managed for a multitude of uses."

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  • EEK! Environmental Education for Kids An electronic magazine for kids in grades 4-8 and their teachers too that features constantly changing information, games, and activities about nature and the environment.
  • Wild World Colorful maps with profiles and photos of more than 1,000 ecoregions. Wild World maps (which were sent to schools and can be ordered on the site) are made interactive on this website. You can enjoy biodiversity and see the urgency of conserving it. An educator's guide accompanies the maps and offers lesson plans and activities on subjects like map fundamentals, biodiversity, and ecoregions.
  • Educational in Nature A series of environmental education curriculum supplements designed to foster understanding and environmental awareness in the classroom. These activities, games, lesson plans, and information cover such topics as forests, animals, recycling, and energy.
  • Lesson plan: Trees of North Carolina Students complete activities including tree and leaf identification, species comparison, online research, measurement, and creative writing in conjunction with monthly visits to the "Iredell County Outdoor Education Site"

Related pages

  • Tuttle Education State Forest: This state forest has been developed for use as a living outdoor classroom for students and adults to learn about the interdependent ecosystems of the forest.
  • Jockey's Ridge State Park: Experience a world of the shifting sands and a barren, desert environment as well as an estuarine environment of the tidal waters of the Roanoke Sound at Jockey's Ridge State Park in Nags Head, North Carolina.
  • Jordan Lake Educational State Forest: Students will learn about the ecosystems which make up a forest and the animals that inhabit it.

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Exhibits and displays depicting the ecology of the managed forest can be found at Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rangers conduct classes for groups of 10 or more students designed to meet the North Carolina science and social studies curriculum. In addition, instructor’s activity packets and special study sites are available to assist teachers in using the Forest as an outdoor classroom.

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