Goal:
To promote wonderment and connect people to a greater appreciation of the forest and its cultural connections with communities.

• Assist students in developing a community based definition of What Is Forestry.


• Provide students and teachers with a basic introduction to forestry.


• Empower students to make informed decisions regarding forestry management issues.
  

The Web Exchange:
Students will through the course of the exchange develop a concept of “what is forestry” through community participation. To assist with the exchange of information between Alaska and Kentucky it is recommended that a match-up be made between an individual class in the two states. These two classes will as the corresponding partner for shared activities between the two states. Shared activities through developed units will be a consistent feature of the year-long program. The design of the program involves not just conducting the activities identified in the unit and associated selective cultural activities (visual, audio (music, poetry) material from each states) but the associated interchange of these activities with a sister school classroom that will help students build on the concept of forestry. These other types of exchanges will include bulletin board exchange (discussion threads between the students in the two classes) and as scheduled video exchanges, through a parent site that will enable interested parents to interact with the program. The teacher’s will also have a web page of their own with necessary teaching materials and support material.

The exchange will happen over the course of the year using all or many of the following units (each unit could take 2 weeks to a month to do, depending on the teacher’s schedule). Units are designed as a learning cycle model and are aligned with core content and Kentucky standards. Each unit will have a learning cycle (engage, explore, explain, expand, evaluate) and a culminating project and an associated cultural activity.