LEAF Guide Supplemental Resources - Original

7-8 Unit

Tree identification cards for use with Field Enhancement 1, Tree Identification

9-12 Unit

Saving Chestnut Trees (audio file)
For use with lesson 3, Forest Biodiversity: Tree Case Studies

Land Cover, Ashland County, Wisconsin(PDF) for use with lesson 5, Forest Science and Technology

Marketplace Matters: Understanding the economic value of Wisconsin's forests (PDF) for general use with the 9-12 unit; 8 page supplement

The LEAF Lesson Guide CD-ROM

Each LEAF Lesson Guide comes with a CD-ROM containing all the lessons from all the units. To get the most use out of your CD-ROM, try these suggestions:

  1. Print your overhead transparencies and student pages directly from the CD rather than photocopying them from the book. Images will be high quality and no spiral binding will show on the edges.
  2. Explore lessons from outside the grade-level you teach. Many of the lessons are adaptable and can be modified to fit your teaching situation. This is also valuable if you have switched grade levels since you received your original printed LEAF Guide.
  3. In the 7-8 Unit folder, there are full-color tree identification cards containing images of native Wisconsin trees. Print, laminate, and hang them on on trees around your school to make a tree ID course. If you can't get outside, use the cards in a lab setting to give students experience using a dichotomous key (also found in the 7-8 Unit folder). We have had teachers say the cards are useful for students all the way from kindergarten through high school. The cards are also available on the LEAF web site at: www.uwsp.edu/cnr/leaf/treeid.htm so tell your fellow teachers.
  4. Unit 2-3 Lesson 4 has a great list of forest products made in Wisconsin and the cities where they are produced. The list can be printed and given to students to enhance any lesson that includes a discussion on forest products.
  5. Every LEAF lesson contains a career profile of someone working in a forestry-related profession. Print the profiles from all the lessons in all the units (28 different ones in total) and create a forestry career bulletin board, use them as part of a careers unit, or invite a local forestry professional into your class to speak about their job.
  6. If you are studying specific tree species with your students, the species profiles in the 9-12 unit will be particularly helpful (Lesson 3, pages 107-125). The profiles for the American chestnut, American elm, Eastern hemlock, red maple, and white oak contain an overview, article, national range map, and state distribution map.