Improve & Maintain Your Woods
Do you have trees on or adjacent to your school grounds? Being able to understand and evaluate existing woodlands is the first step to determining what projects may potentially improve or enhance them. Visit the links below to learn to identify your trees and potential threats to them, and projects that can support woodland wildlife, provide educational and recreational opportunities for students and teachers, and help your trees survive and thrive!
Before You Start
Implementation
- Understanding Your Woods: Evaluation and Plant Identification
- Identifying & Managing Threats to Woodlands
- Beneath the Trees: Adding Other Woodland Plants
- Features to Attract & Support Wildlife
Maintenance
Using Your Project
- Overview: Using Your Project
- Monitor for Change
- Bay Backpack: Bay Animals Lesson & Activities
- Project WILD (K-12)
- Project WILD: Growing Up WILD (Ages 3-7)
- Fostering Outdoor Observation Skills-Citizen Science K-8 (AFWA)
- Forests for the Bay (Scroll to Educator Resources)
- Eco School Sustainability Pathways Lessons & Resources
- Eco School National Standards & Curriculum Alignment
- Project Learning Tree Curriculum Offerings
- Eco Schools Green STEM Initiative
- Eco Schools LEAF Sustainability Pathway