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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

The Forest History Society links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preseving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of relationships between forest, their related resources, and people. FHS, an international leader in forest and conservation history, has been publishing for the academic community since 1955. In 1996, the Society took steps to begin publishing for the K-12 community. If Trees Could Talk is the result.

Resources created by Lucy Laffitte

Trees in your own backyard
This activity lets students discover the benefits of urban forests by looking at trees on the schoolyard. Students will read a synopsis of the 400-year history of communal forests, survey their schoolyard trees, and draft a schoolyard tree ordinance.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
By Lucy Laffitte.