Teacher Resources
Attention Teachers!
NGSS standards covered by Kids in the Forest:
- Structures and Processes
- Earth’s Systems
- Earth and Human Activity.
- Want to schedule a field day for your students? Please fill out the interest form here
All program videos below and more are available through North40 Productions from the button below.
A BIG thank you to The WA Recreation & Conservation Office’s No Child Left Inside funds and Department of Commerce for funding the 2019/2020 term for this program and now the 2021/2023 program years! Details here
Also thank you to the Sustainable Forest Initiative (www.sfiprogram.org) and Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (http://www.k12.wa.us/) for funding the 2018/2019 term of this program!
To learn more contact:
Amanda Newell
[email protected]
(509) 436-1601
Educational Videos and Materials:
- Fire in the Aftermath – Following Landscape Change After Wildfire. John Marshall slideshow
- Pre and Post Field Trip Options – based on a previous curriculum, but individual lessons still apply
- Era of Megafires presentation. Suggested as a front loading resource before field experience.
- Step into the Shrub Steppe with Susan Ballinger – 8 min educational video
- Intro to Shrub Steppe video supplemental materials
Shrub-Step Ecosystem Education
Shrub Steppe Spanish Version with Elisa Lopez
Field Journaling
Field Journaling with Lindsay Breidenthal – 4 min educational video
Field Journals Spanish Version with Elisa Lopez
With EdPuzzle
Matchstick Forest
Matchstick Forest Enrichment Activity with Kirk Beckendorf of Cascadia Conservation District:
Matchstick Forest videos from FireWorks – slope video
Matchstick Forest from FireWorks – density video
Fighting Fire with Fire in Central Washington:
Prescribed Fire Video
Prescribed Fire video from the US Forest Service
Fire and the Forest: Part 1
Fire and the Forest with Dave Spies Part 1: English Version
Fire and the Forest with Elisa Lopez Part 1: Spanish Version
With EdPuzzle
Fire and the Forest: Part 2
Fire and the Forest with Dave Spies Part 2: English Version
Fire and the Forest with Elisa Lopez Part 2: Spanish Version
With EdPuzzle
Go Bags
Go Bags with Tina Nicpan-Brown – English Version
Go Bags with Elisa Lopez – Spanish Version
With EdPuzzle
Cheatgrass in Sagebrush Country
Fueling Severe Wildfires – from the National Audubon Society
Climate Change & Wildfire
Climate Change & Wildfire
Climate Change and Wildfire – English
Climate Change and Wildfire – Spanish