RESOURCES: Have another link, example, best practices, or resource to share? Email us! childrensforestnetwork@gmail.com

Place Based Service Learning

• Promise of Place: https://promiseofplace.org/

• Trail to Every Classroom Teacher Manual.

• FFEC Curriculum Development Tool

Programs

Work with or know teens? The Georgia Mountains Children’s Forest Network offers a NextGen Teen Ambassador program!

Public Lands

• Elements of our curriculum are adaptations of The Public Lands Curriculum. This FREE resource is from The Wilderness Society and The Avarna Group, used and adapted with permission.

  • Utilizing this curriculum, here is a Padlet with the timelines module, a fantastic resource!

• How to create your own Google Earth Virtual Tour.

Land Acknowledgement

• Look up the land you’re on: https://native-land.ca/

• Native Land Digital, Teacher Guide: https://native-land.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/teacher_guide_2019_final.pdf

• Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgements: https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/

• #HonorNativeLand Virtual Pack

Additional Resources

• North American Association for Environmental Education and Children and Nature Network. Their collaborative resource library, which can provide articles to support grant proposals and more: https://naaee.org/eepro/research/library

• https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources

• National Equity Project

• PBS Education

• United States Forest Service Equity Action Plan

• inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flowers-and-fauna-along-the-appalachian-trail-corridor

  • Once you have downloaded the app onto your phone, search for the project group 'flowers and fauna along the appalachian trail corridor'

Black Outside

• Read Academic: Black Faces, White Spaces - Dr. Carolyn Finney

• Read Stories: Legacy on the Land - Audrey Peterman

• Read Why This Matters: Engage Connect Protect - Angelou Ezeilo

• Listen onbeing: https://.org/programs/gwendolyn-zoharah-simmons-and-lucas-johnson-the-movement-remembered-forward/

• PBS Resources for White Educators Who Seek to Be Anti-Racist: https://www.pbs.org/education/blog/a-call-to-action-for-white-educators-who-seek-to-be-anti-racist

Climate

https://hundred.org/en/about

Climate Action Project