Oregon Forest Literacy Plan-Updated 2022

Oregon Forest Literacy Plan-Updated 2022

The 24-page Oregon Forest Literacy Plan provides educators with a conceptual framework for teaching about Oregon's forests that aligns with the latest state curriculum standards for math, science, social science and literacy. The framework is organized around answering four main questions:

What is a forest?

Why are forests important?

How do we sustain our forests?

What is our responsibility to Oregon's forests?

The plan’s built-in flexibility makes it useful for a wide range of applications to increase forest literacy, including classroom instruction, informal education and curriculum materials on forest topics. It includes examples of grade appropriate activities related to forests. These can be used to teach and reinforce concepts detailed in the conceptual framework as well as to connect students to the natural world. The concepts were developed by the statewide stakeholder group to correlate with the Oregon content standards along with the educational materials and classroom activities highlighted in the plan.