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Like other Pennsylvania residents, Commonwealth students often know
more about tropical rain forests or the ancient redwood forests
than they do about the forests and trees in their own state. Comprehensive,
state-specific curriculum materials have not been available. "Sustaining
Penn's Woods" is a curriculum created to address this information
gap and to provide teachers with a resource to help them meet the
state's new academic
standards for environment and ecology.
The "Sustaining
Penn's Woods" curriculum is a Pennsylvania-specific forest education
program modeled after the Project Learning Tree (PLT) program. It
is designed especially for use by Pennsylvania educators with students
in the fifth through 10th grades and with the state's new environment
and ecology standards in mind. To aid teachers, each chapter lists
the relevant academic standards to which it applies.
The written curriculum is divided into five sections:
1. Human Influence on Pennsylvania's Forests: Then and Now
2. Pennsylvania's Forest Resources
3. Benefits of Pennsylvania Forests
4. Forest Industry
5. Pennsylvania Forest Management
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The
written curriculum is complemented by an interactive CD-ROM,
a classroom poster and two video tapes, "An Industry Committed
to the Forest Resource" and "Wild PA: Deer Management."
"Sustaining
Penn's Woods" is distributed by the Pennsylvania-Department
of Education, Bureau of Curriculum & Academic Programs.
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PLT (www.plt.org)
was introduced in 1973 and now is one of the most widely used environmental
education programs in the world. Using the forest as a window into
natural and built environments, PLT stresses the development of
critical thinking and focuses on the total environment - land, air
and water. The program is administered by a broad-based committee
of partners from the education, conservation and business communities
and is based in Washington, DC.
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