Canadian Forestry Association
Phone: (613) 232-1815 Fax: 232-4210
FRIENDS OF THE FOREST.
Two boys learn about natural versus synthetic products, forest communities, stewardship and conservation. Program includes summary, curriculum tie-ins, pre-story and story activities, worksheets and questions. For audiences aged 6 to 9 years.
Contact: Jane Drake, Ann Love or Pat Cupples
This book introduces kids to the people, machines and environmental concerns of forestry and helps them appreciate the work involved in bringing forest products to their homes. The book explains the complexity of the forest ecosystem, regeneration, fire control, harvesting methods, transportation, the workings of a small sawmill and papermill and the importance of wilderness. Ages: 7-10. Cost: $14.95.
Pulp and Paper Sector
Advanced Papermaking Initiative
The Advanced Papermaking Initiative (API) is a program to enhance post-secondary education for the pulp and paper industry of British Columbia.
Pulp & Paper Centre
Tel 604-822-8560 Fax 604-822-8563.
http://www.api.ubc.ca/
New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy
Fredericton, New Brunswick
HOUSE - WHERE, WHY & HOW: A Child's Guide to the Origins of Everyday Stuff (1993). Narrated from the tree's perspective as it grows in the forest, travels to the mill, and becomes part of a new house. Ages: 6+. Length: 9 minutes. Cost: Loan (video).
A CUT ABOVE: MY GRANDFATHER WAS A LOGGER. A look at the logging industry on Vancouver Island through the eyes of Mike Tardiff, a third-generation forest industry worker. (25 min. video)
Madeira Park, BC
E-mail:harbour@sunshine.net
NOW YOU'RE LOGGING! by Bus Griffiths. Classic cartoons that not only illustrate old-time logging methods but tell a rousing tale from the "golden age" of the BC forest industry. Cost: $19.95.
HarperCollins Canada Ltd.
Phone: 1-800-387-0117 Fax: 1-800-668-5788
ONE DAY IN THE WOODS is a story of a young urban girl discovering the forest. The book describes forest life and encourages an appreciation for its holistic values.
Naturescape British Columbia
Ministry of Environment, Lands
and Parks
NATURESCAPE KIT. Students learn to restore, maintain and protect wildlife habitat at home or at school with a Naturescape kit. This kit helps create a more wildlife-friendly environment. Cost: $15.
EYEWITNESS BEAR VIDEO. In classic eyewitness style, this 35-minute video provides new insights into an animal that humans both fear and love. Ages: 7 and up. Cost: $9.95.
c/o Pacific Edge Publishing
Gabriola, BC
E-mail: ccontent@island.net
ANIMAL ACTIVITY BOOKS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS — Arctic Animals, Desert Animals, Grassland Animals, Northern Forest Animals, and Ocean Animals. These books introduce students to animals that live in five different regions around the world. Both the information and the activities will help children discover how the animals obtain food, shelter and defend themselves from enemies. Teachers will find the glossary at the end of each resource a useful review. Cost: $7.95 each.
PO Box 31933, West Vancouver, B.C. V7V 4s4,
E-mail: letters@spiritbearyouth.org
web:www.spiritbearyouth.org
Founded by BC student Simon Jackson, the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition is a youth-run environmental organiztion whose mandate is to preserve a habitat in BC's northern coastal rainforest for the rare, white Kermode or spirit bear.
BEAR DEN
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/wildlifephotog/
All you may want to know about bears.
CHILDREN'S BUTTERFLY SITE
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
Loaded with pictures, facts and additional resources.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
http://www.nwf.org/kids/
The Kids page features articles from the environmental magazine, Ranger Rick.
ZOONET FOR KIDS
http://members.aol.com/zoonetkids/index.htm
Many animal/zoo activities and programs.
JOURNEY NORTH
Phone: (612) 339-6959 fax (612) 339-7056
e-mail ehd@jriver.com
Spring's Journey North on the Information Superhighway. An Internet-based learning adventure that engages students in a global study of wildlife migration: bald eagles, monarch butterflies, sea turtles, songbirds, peregrine falcons, caribou, and loons. Available at the following free Internet sites:
WWW www.learner.org/jnorth/
e-mail jnorth@informns.k12.mn.us
For schools without access to the Internet (and e-mail services), please fax to the above number.
BC SPCA - KIDS HELPING ANIMALS
http://www.spca.bc.ca/Kids/default.asp
Things you can do to help animals.
http://www.smokeybear.com/
Smokey's home page.
http://www.ran.org/
Campaigning for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action.
NATIONAL ATLAS ON SCHOOLNET
Interactive learning about Canadian issues including the Boreal Forest and Wildlife at Risk.
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