Student Reading
The world’s forests are important ecosystems in regulating climate and nurturing wildlife. This reading provides an overview of trends affecting the world’s tropical forests and temperate forests here in North America.
Case Study
The increasing demand for palm oil is taking a toll on Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich tropical rainforests.
Lesson Plans
Students play a board game about the fate of a rainforest where they must strategically balance economic and environmental decisions.
Acting as different stakeholders with various interests, students play a strategy game where they work in groups to negotiate management of a publicly owned forest.