This site supports a
high school curriculum designed as a three-year program in a Foundation
Skill Curriculum for the Forest and Wood Industry. The program is
designed in a clustered format (as illustrated in the diagram below)
that includes:
- core skills for the forest and
wood industry in the first year,
- specialized core skills in the
second and
- concludes in the third year with
skills in one or more of five specialty areas.
 These
specialty areas include forest management, timber harvesting, primary wood
manufacturing, secondary wood manufacturing, and construction
carpentry. The program provides students with the foundation skills
necessary for entry-level jobs in the forest and wood industry or
for continuing their education in a related two- or four-year
postsecondary degree program.
The competency-based curriculum provided is in the form of teacher
planning guides. These free guides provide teachers with the
information and resources necessary to develop lesson plans for each
of the competencies identified.
Each planning guide includes suggestions for academic performance
standards, evaluation procedures, and a teaching plan complete with
teaching activities for students and suggested resources to
accomplish them. The planning guides also identify prerequisite
academic (click here for a listing) and technical skills, related SCANS (workplace) skills
(click
here for a listing,
here for evaluation suggestions) , and
the intelligences that are accommodated in the activities of the
suggested teaching plan.
The suggested program is divided into semester (half a school year)
courses except for the first year core, which is a full school year
in length. The semester courses are set for a total of about 85
forty minute periods, assuming that there will be an additional five
periods taken up by out of class activities.
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this map for more information
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