Resources for Teachers
Exploring the Site
- Teacher Guide 1: Guidelines for Navigating the Interactive Mapping Tool
- Site Orientation activities: Teacher Guide 1 | Student Handout
- Selected state science and geography standards met by the activities in the Teacher Guides: Arkansas | Florida | Georgia | Mississippi | North Carolina | Tennessee
- Glossary of Key Terms
Teach About Forest Features and Ecosystems
Teach About Drivers of Changes and Solutions
- Teacher Guide 3: Drivers of Change & Solutions
- See Additional Resources Below
Additional Resources
Supplemental lessons and activities. These documents are provided through a cooperative agreement with Creative Change Educational Solutions, a nonprofit organization specializing in sustainability curriculum. http://www.creativechange.net:
- Introduction to Ecosystem Services: Students identify and discover examples of ecosystem services around their school or in their local/surrounding community.
- Renewable/Nonrenewable Resources Classification Game: This file provides materials for a “tag”-like game that has students classify natural materials as renewable resources, renewable ecosystem services, or non-renewable resources.
- Human-Environmental Interactions throughout Time: Engage students in creating a timeline of human-environmental interactions that have shaped their region.