What is the Wisconsin School Forest Program?
School forests have incredible educational value. They are used to: • Meet state education standards – Education programs at school forests help to meet diverse state mandated education standards including science, language arts, math, social studies, environmental education, and agriculture education. • Integrate environmental education into the curriculum – Research has shown that using the environment as a theme across subject areas increases standardized test scores, improves attendance, and decreases behavior problems (Lieberman and Hoody 1998). Environmental education shouldn’t be seen as another subject area, but as an approach that can help students learn across the curriculum. A school forest should be an extension of the classroom that is used to enhance learning through hands-on, experiential approaches that can’t be accomplished in the school. • Connect teachers and students to place – As a counter to increasing attention focused on standardized and nationalized education a
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