Making the Global Connection

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Global Connections Forests of the World
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Making the Global Connection
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Objective

• Identify ways that forests are important to
  people and other living things.
• Develop and conduct a survey of family and
  friends to learn what others think about their
  connection to the worlds forests.

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Searchable Key Words

• ecosystem services
• forest commodity
• forest product
• worlds forests

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Background

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Am I connected to the forest?
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Yes, we are
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Forests cover 30 of the worlds land area
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Major role of forests

1. Carbon cycle
2. Oxygen cycle
3. Nitrogen cycle
4. Soil stabilization
5. Gene storage
6. Regulate temperature
7. Regulate rain fall
8. Provide wood and fiber
9. Watershed protection
10. Habitat for animals and plants

Image http//climateofourfuture.org/thirsty-trees
-drink-carbon-dioxide-instead/
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Background Vocabulary

• Watershed The land area that delivers runoff
  water and sediment to a major river or stream and
  its tributaries

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• Habitat The area that provides an animal or
  plant with adequate food, water, shelter and
  living space

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• Ecosystem The interacting system of a biological
  community
• and its nonliving environment
• the place where those interactions occur

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- Background Vocabulary
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ty.html

• Commodity A good or service that is exchanged
  for money

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Forests Provide
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• Goods

• Services

Wood Products Fuelwood, Roundwood Sawnwood
Nonwood forest products Fiber Food Medicines Cork Resins
Water Drinking Irrigation
Fodder Food for animals
Removing air pollutants Carbon storage
Watershed functions Regulate weather
Create soil Cycling nutrients
Provide habitat Maintain biodiversity
Recreation Employment
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The value of wood
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• Nearly half the people on Earth
• use wood as fuel for cooking and heating

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Wood Use
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Furniture
Paper
Building material
Tools
Packaging
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Nonwood products
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Do you use these products?
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Using the internet, find what tree or forest is
connected to the product below.
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natural rubber
cork
cocoa
bamboo
nuts
maple syrup
chicle
honey
ginseng
natural cosmetics
mushrooms
cola
heart of palm
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Human and trees psychological connections
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- Background

• Recreation
• Ecotourism
• Relaxation
• Therapy
• Spiritual connections

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Recreation
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Ecotourism
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Relaxation and therapy
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Spiritual connection
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Doing the activity

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Now, time to work!
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We will develop and conduct a survey to learn
what others think about their connections to the
worlds forest
Question
Make a list ___________________ _________________
__ ___________________ ___________________

• In what ways is your life
• affected by forests?

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In what ways is your life affected by forests?
Class list ___________________
___________________ ___________________ _________
__________ ___________________
Effect from ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
Is this an effect from a local forest or from a
forest in another part of the world?
Label your list with either ? Local forest ?
Forest in another part of the world
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Group discussion

• In what ways are we connected to forests all over
  the world?

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Lets do a survey!
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• Question
• What do your family and friends believe about
  their connections to forests of the world?
• Tool
• Write you own survey questions
• or
• Use the Forest of the World Opinionnaire (page
  35) as a guide to create your own questionnaire.
• Procedure
• Small groups for a brainstorm about questions on
  your survey.
• Choose 2 or 3 of the best questions.
• Test your questions with other students or
  teachers.
• Revise it if necessary.

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Writing your own survey questions
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• Possibilities of survey questions?
• Yes/No
• Multiple-choice
• Open-ended
• Combination

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Your survey questions
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__________________________________________________
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_________ ________________________________________
______________ ___________________________________
___________________ ______________________________
________________________ _________________________
_____________________________ ____________________
__________________________________ _______________
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Revising your questions
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• Are there any duplicates that can be eliminated?
• Is there an appropriate number of questions?
• Is there a suitable variety of question forms?
• What order of questions would be best?
• Is there anything else the survey needs?

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Do the survey!
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• Deadline _________
• Sample size _________
• (How many completed surveys do we need?)
• Who will compile the results?________
• Who will make the charts and graphs?_______

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Survey results discussion
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• What does this survey tell us about what people
  think about the forests of the world?
• Did any of the responses surprise you? How?
• Which aspects of forests were the most important
  and least important to the people we surveyed?
• How did their responses compare with those of the
  class?
• Document your conclusions with appropriate
• charts and graphs.

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Assessment

• Write a few paragraphs about what you learned
  from developing the survey and from evaluating
  the survey results

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Enrichment

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Interview with non-local resident
Activity 1 Enrichment Interview

• Meeting with a resident from another region of
  the country or another country
• Questions
• What memories do you have of the forests?
• What did they look like?
• How did those forests compare to forests here?
• How did your family use the forests?
• What attitudes did people have about forests
  compared to attitudes here?

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Using Technology
Activity 1 Enrichment Technology

• Use a graphing calculator or other technology
  tool to graph and analyze the results of the
  survey.

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Research Careers
Activity 1 Enrichment Careers

• Surveys are a technique used in a number of
  professions.
• Explore different ways that people might use
  surveys on the job.
• Search magazines or newspapers for stories that
  involve survey results or compare different
  online survey tools.

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Resource

• For additional sample survey questions, see the
  Perceptions of Forests issue of the Food and
  Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United
  Nations international journal of forestry,
  Unasylva 54, no. 213 (2003/2)
• http//www.fao.org/docrep/005/y9882e/y9882e00.htm.