Kids in the Forest Educational Training
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Welcome to the kids in the forest Discovery hike. The purpose of this hike is twofold. First, to simply get kids out in the woods so they can experience it for themselves. Keep in mind that for some of your students, this will be the first time that they've ever really been in a forest. Second, the hike is the perfect setting for your students to learn about a number of topics, including watersheds, habitats and wildfire ecology. Please cover the six topics discussed in this video, but feel free to add your own or use Theoden inal ideas in the written teacher materials. You'll have just 90 minutes for this height, so make sure to keep it moving. Six. Teaching topics are one safety and respect in the forest to what is a watershed. Three plants in the watershed. Four. Tree rings and wildfire five. Wildfire Historically, and what is a habitat? We're now going to briefly walk through each of the six topics. For more details, check out your written teacher materials before you actually start the hike. Gather the trailhead and discuss with students how to stay safe in the wilderness and how to respect it. Review the do's and don'ts of hiking. Like always, stay on the trail and make sure to designate an adult to be in the front and another to be in the back next early in the hike located stream, water source or sweeping landscape for the concept of a watershed from Ridge Top two River can be visualized. Ask the students to describe what they see around them. Where does this water come from? And where does it go? Why is this water and important part of the landscape? What is a watershed? And what are some things that could have a negative impact on a watershed enclosing? Draw their attention to climate change and discuss how it's had an effect in this particular watershed? A little further along in the hike, Stop it. A location with an overcrowded stand of trees asked students to identify several dominant plant species that they see around them. Brainstorm together the four things all plants need to survive. Light air, water and soil. Next, draw their attention to the overcrowded tree stand and point out the specific trees that are dying. Ask the students why they think this is happening. Helped him see the connection between overcrowding and not having enough of the four things the trees need to survive. Also point out how overcrowding can lead to large disease. And insect outbreaks finally asked them what they think would happen if wildfire came through this particular stand. This is an important note to end on as it will set up the next topic. Next, stop it a large fire adapted tree species such as Ponderosa pine, then point out how this particular tree species is adapted to withstand regular intervals of low severity fire and any other fire adapted features at my half. Which one do you think's gonna be able to survive a fire? Better? Yeah, it's like a big fire blanket. It's late using the tree cookie or photo included in the teacher materials. Tell the story of how often fires occurred here, historic with a few 184 year old tree and for a whole life had a fire come through every nine years. But then, from 1929 to 1994 it's on no fire. Discuss why and how suppressing all while fire has impacted western forests. To wrap up this section, use an increment board to show the students how Forrester's air able to kill tree rings without cutting down the tree. This is a great hands on opportunity for the students and often a highlight of their hike. For your next stop, find a location where multiple forest structure types are present like dense and open patches, very canopy heights and species diversity. Using the panoramic forest comparison photos provided in your teacher materials show the students what forests look like 100 years ago point out the back then they were a patchwork of closed and open forest types with diverse tree species compared to what they are like now dense and homogeneous. Next, ask them how they think this happened, eventually remind them of what they recently discovered with the tree rings. That wildfire used to be a regular part of the landscape until we suppressed it for 100 years, and this is the result and closing. Talk about how a healthy forest is a patchwork of very tree species and forest density, much like section of forest. There, standing in now for the final stop, find a location with the dead snag that has a cavity nest or recent woodpecker activity pointed out to the students and asked them if they think a dead tree is a healthy part of a forest, other halls from woodpecker. So some of these dead trees in the forest are really important. This'll naturally lead into a discussion on how a diverse patchwork force that has experienced wildfire is essential in providing varied habitats for a wide range of animals, insects and plant species. This concludes our required list of topics for your discovery hike. Make sure to check out our teacher materials for other ideas and again feel free to add Europe.