Welcome to the Kids 'Ask a Forester' Page

This page can provide you with information about forestry - try the links or send me your questions. You can send me pictures of trees, short stories or jokes which are relevant to trees and forests

Forest Education Initiative in Scotland - includes "Cluster Group" contacts Peter Tomlin's Page on Scottish Forestry and trees or try his other web site- some nice photographs. TTT  Treedonia, International Paper's virtual southern forest. Pulp and Paper Information Centre (UK) including: Kids Corner Request for Information ~ standard information packs. Free information sheets (History of paper, Paper and the Forest and many more) Purchase School Resource Packs Forestry information page Scout Groups in the UK 2nd Clowne Scout Group - Chesterfield, Derbyshire CFAN (Canada) Kid's Corner - English version French version Spanish version TTTTT Tree School - a Canadian resource for kids and parents to learn about forestry. It also included a series of teaching resources to support teachers. The World of Trees Also in French TTTTT provided by Domtar Paper, Canada TimberTrekkers - Australian kids club Harry and Sal - Forestry Australia - information for all ages!!! Teaching Youth About Trees - National Arbor Day Foundation - for teachers in USA. ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources for K-12 mathematics and science education TTTTT Tree-Education - New Forests Project (USA based) Virtual Forest - details of an educational CD Rom for 5th Grade - virtual reality forest. Sheers Lumberjack Show - good pictures TTT Make a box for birds or bats - details of construction Christmas Trees from the Forestry Commission (UK) including aninteractive Advent Calendar, Information and where you can buy a real tree. National Christmas Tree Association - activity sheets. NatureWatch - now includes a drawing and coloring contest for kids. This contest is open to anyone, anywhere, so get your kids drawing and coloring. There are 2 contests: Migratory Birds and Fish with 4 age groups (5-6, 7-8, 9,10, 11-12). Winning drawings will be used for a year 2000 calendar plus receive prizes. Christmas Tree Facts, Traditions and Foklore in the USA Heroes for the Planet - Kids Page - find the Forestry Heroes Teaching OnLine - for New Zealand Teachers. Rain forest - a virtual visit … an Internet Research Project for levels 2-4 TTTTT Here are some links to "How to measure the height of a tree". Making a Tree Scale Stick Be a Forest Manager - How to Measure a Tree's Height Trees and Forest Project Tree Measurement (mathmatics curriculum) Tree Measurement How Tall Is That? Plant tissue culture in classrooms without expensive equipment by Kitchen Culture Kits, Inc.

The Global Schoolhouse linking kids, teachers and parents around the world.

The International Education and Resource Network enables young people to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people

the Global Association of Online Foresters HELPLINE if you have any comments or if you want to set up a mailing list for schools.

We are putting together some information about careers in forestry on this web site.

Click here to read "A day in the life of a Forester"

Yahooligans is selective and the layout is really nice

Nice and selective with details of a forestry quiz. Enter your question here: Ask Jeeves is a trademark of Ask Jeeves, Inc., Copyright 1997 Ask Jeeves, Inc.

Kids Click Web guide for kids and librarians. Provides reference to the reading level but a bit limited.

Schoolwork Nice reference section for doing your homework - not much use for searching for forestry.

AOL A search engine that links only to sites that are safe for kids.

Student Surf Safe but not terribly selective - possibly of use to older children

Searchopolis Just another search engine?