A set of tools to help you champion forestry and wood products in schools.
Do you work in the forestry or wood products industry and can spare 1 hour to 1 day a year to champion the importance of sustainable forestry?
The ForestLearning Industry Champion toolkit provides foundation to year 12 teachers and forestry industry champions with resources and how-to guides to assist in school and industry activities such as excursions and incursions. Complete with activity guides to help teachers run a session with you, the Industry Champion toolkit has everything you need to help educate future generations about your critical work.
The toolkit includes:
- Industry Champion ‘how-to’ guides to more effectively engage with primary and high schools,
- Primary and secondary teacher ‘how-to’ guides to more effectively engage with industry education champion volunteers,
- Preparation checklists and tips/tricks for industry education champions to use in lead up to schools activities and presentations,
- Evaluation tools for Teachers and Industry Education Champions to use following an activity.
For engaging with primary schools:
- Industry Guide for Primary Schools: This document aims to support ForestLearning’s Industry Champions to engage with primary schools. It outlines themes in forestry and wood that students are learning across different year levels, and offers a non-prescriptive program outline to assist industry champions to present to primary students, or host an excursion.
- Primary Teacher Guide – ForestLearning Industry Champion Activity: This Teacher Guide aims to provide the primary teacher with potential learning objectives, Australian Curriculum links and a preparation checklist to help plan an activity with a Forest and Wood Product Industry Education Champion.
For engaging with secondary schools:
- Industry Guide for Secondary Schools: This document aims to support ForestLearning’s Forest and Wood Product Industry Champions to engage with secondary schools. It outlines key forest and wood themes that link to the Australian Curriculum across different year levels, and offers a non-prescriptive program outline to assist industry champions to present to secondary students, or host an excursion.
- Secondary Teacher Guide: ForestLearning Industry Champion Activity: This Teacher Guide aims to provide the secondary teacher with potential learning objectives, Australian Curriculum links and a preparation checklist to help plan an activity with a Forest Industry Education Champion.
Reflection and evaluation tools:
- Teacher Evaluation – Forest and Wood Industry Education Champion Activity: An evaluation tool for the teacher to provide feedback on your Forest and Wood industry education champion activity. The feedback will help your Champion, as well as encourage new Industry Champions to engage with more schools around Australia.
- Industry Champion – Reflection Tool: This tool is for Industry Education Champions following a school activity. Information from your responses will help ForestLearning to capture useful activity reflections to assist other champions wishing to start similar activities in their region.
Preparation tool:
- Industry Preparation for a School Activity Guide: This industry guide outlines some preparation steps you can consider as a Forest and Wood product Industry Champion before, during and following a school activity. Preparation checklists and an outline of Tips and Tricks for Engaging Students is outlined.
For further information or enquiries please email ForestLearning to learn more!
