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School Forest Activities and Lessons
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| Adopt A Highway | Litter pick up |
| Alphabet Hunt | Scavenger Hunt for items |
| Animal Museum | Observation & Exploration |
| Animal Tracks | Making plaster casts |
| Bat and Moth | Predator-Prey Game |
| Beaver Ecology | Four Laws of Ecology / beaver pond hike |
| Bird Beaks | Tools used to eat food |
| Birds Hike | Feed and watch birds, binoculars used |
| Bottle Biology | Two liter soda bottle craft |
| Campfire Sing Along | Singing & Story Telling |
| Cold & Warm Blooded | Minnows put on ice |
| Compass Competition | Back country use of compass and map |
| Compass Course | Near lodge students use compass and map |
| Cross Country Skiing | Demonstration and instructions |
| Deadly Waters | Graph used to compare pollutants |
| Energy Cycle | Ride bike to light bulbs |
| Escaped Animals | Stuffed Animal Find |
| Facts in Five | Letters used to name items in a category |
| Flower Power | Flower parts, crafts and hike |
| Food Chain Pit | Trading animals |
| Getting Ready for Winter | Plants make seeds or Animal Activities |
| Habitat Lap Sit | Balance and interconnections |
| High Roller | A question and answer game played with dice |
| How Many Bear? | "Bears" eat food and live or die |
| Ice Age Trail Hike | Wisconsin glacial history |
| Insect Hunt | Collect and observe |
| Land Use | Platbook 1914-1994 compare |
| Logging Past & Present | Timber museum |
| Lumberjack Games | Crosscut saw, pruning saw, peavey, cant hook |
| Manitou Rock | Wisconsin Indian History |
| Mapping | Use of pacing, compass, and graph paper |
| Meter Reader | Energy use monitored |
| Migration Headache | "Birds" move during the year to nest and eat |
| Obstacle Course | Team building |
| Oh Deer | Habitat parts game |
| Paper Making | Forest products & Recycling |
| Pond Ecology | Life in a drop |
| Popcorn Food Chain | Energy loss and transfer |
| Quonset Hut | Snow shelter |
| Reading the Rings | Tree cross sections examined |
| Rock & Fossil Hunt | Rock cycle |
| Rock & Soil Exploration | Chocolate chip cookie |
| Salmon Game | Fish life cycle |
| School Forest Legends | Creatures made stories told |
| Seed Game | Sun, soil, water, seed and limiting factors compete |
| Seed Suitcase | Seeds travel away |
| Snow Shoeing | Adaptation to walk in deep snow |
| Skullduggery | Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore |
| Sledding | Outdoor enjoyment |
| Soil Chemistry | Testing pH |
| Temperature | Thermometers in hot, cold and warm places |
| The Rotten Truth | Rotten log/Compost |
| Timber Cutting Operations | Hike, observe, evaluate, calculate board feet |
| Timber Stand Improvement | Tree Diameter and Tree Density & Graphing |
| Toothpick Worms | Colors as an adaptation |
| Tragedies in the Commons | Logging/Hunting greed |
| Treasure Hunt | Soil dig, sift, and find |
| Tree Friends | Leaf and Bark rubbings |
| W(H)at's in Your Shed | Ripley Creek Hike/Oil spill analysis |
| Wanted Dead or Alive | Collect and separate |
| Water Chemistry | Testing and parts per million |
| Water Wealth | Tablespoons of water counted |
| Weather | Weather maps, symbols and effects |
| Wetland Metaphors | Like and as explained |
| Who gives a Hoot? | Owl adaptations and habitat |
| Wisconsin Conifers | Identification using a Key |
| Wolf Howling | "Wolves" howl to find each other |
