Seeing the forest and the trees

Year level: Upper primary Learning outcome Students will investigate the human uses of forests and the impacts of these activities. List as many ways as you can in which you use timber and timber products in your daily life. Add to you list the ways in which rural people in a developing country might use forests and forest products in their daily lives. Read the introduction to the case study Seeing the forests and the trees and add to your list. Draw a Venn diagram to contrast your use of forests an forest products with their use in rural Nepal. Label the circle on the left 'My life' and the circle on the right 'Life in Nepal'. List the uses of forests and forest products in the appropriate circles, listing those used by both you and Nepalese people, as described in the case study, in the overlapping section. Describe the similarities and differences in the use of forests and forest products and suggest reasons for these similarities and differences. Create consequence charts for yourself and the Nepalese people featured in the case study: What if there was no more wood for cooking and heating? What if there was no more clean water? Research the forest management methods used in Australia. Compare these management methods with those used by the people featured in the case study. Design and display a poster informing your school or local community of the need to carefully manage forests in Australia and overseas. Assessment task List three methods of good forestry management.