The Environment

Hello everyone!

As I was searching through a David Suzuki website, I came upon a really interesting site to do with the environment called Forest Adventures.

In this website, students get to pretend they are given a deed to a forest and have to decide what they should do with it. In the end, they get to learn that clearcutting sometimes takes place and is not what we want to do with all of the Earth's forests (especially just for profit).

This can be connected to Grade 6 Science - Ecosystems (in relation to effects of change on an ecosystem and a sense of responsibility for the preservation of ecosystems) and also Grade 6 Science - Earth's Climate (you can compare characteristics of different climates and use this as an example of B.C. perhaps).

I think this website would be a fun and interactive introduction for the students to use to begin thinking about what sort of effects clear cutting this forest would have and the reasons why they would or would not do it. This site could be a starting point for students to begin thinking critically together and on their own what results their own actions may have in certain areas of the environment.

How I would use this website in a classroom would be to go through the activity and then create a paragraph response about the reasons why clear cutting forests might be bad and to also tell me some effects that might have on the environment.