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The Boreal Forest: A Global Legacy - Vol. 7 (K-5)

Elementary

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The Boreal Forest – A Global Legacy explores the natural wealth of the Boreal forest, its biodiversity, economic value and social and cultural importance. The resource helps students of all ages learn about the Boreal forest by incorporating boreal information into a wide range of subject areas.  Each lesson provides learning outcomes, an attention grabbing lesson opener as well as extension activities. The resource contains a series of eight lessons, for this review we take a look at lessons three, four, six and eight.

 

Lesson 3 – Boreal Superheroes

  • Students investigate two super adapted Boreal species, discovering the forest’s climate and geography at the same time. They discover how one plant and one animal thrive in the world’s most northern forest using their behavioural and physical adaptations. As an extension activity, students conduct research and make presentations about other species that have adapted to living in the Boreal forest.

 

Lesson 4 – B is for Boreal

  • Students become familiar with some common Boreal species by matching up names with images, and then answering questions. As an extension activity, students make a list of Boreal species and group them under many different categories, such as predator/prey, mammal, bird, insect, reptile, amphibian, plant and tree, or types of habitat preferred.

 

Lesson 6 – Boreal 101

  • In groups or pairs students learn about all the ways the Boreal forest is valued, from spirituality to economics to recreation. They cut out and match up descriptions under correct headings. Students discover biological, geographical, cultural, economic and global aspects of Canada’s Boreal forest.

 

Lesson 8 – Boreal Footprints

  • Students bring to life the interactions of various predators and prey of the Boreal forest. This lesson allows students the opportunity to make and interpret the footprints of common Boreal species. Students create paint stamps for the footprints of various Boreal animals. Using the stamps they create a painted Boreal scene, illustrating how their two Boreal animals interact. They write about the action that takes place in their painting.  

 

 

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