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The Stump Book - Teacher's Guide

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Vancouver Environment Education Project, Western Education Development Group
Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1975

Very Useful
Book
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Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Theme(s): Energy/Ecology, Living in Place

Excerpt:

" Introduction

Children love to climb on stumps. And most specially the enormous stumps of the coast forest. They are the greatest heritage of our forest industries. They can reach 7 metres in diameter. They might represent trees which were cut down a century ago. They form a special part of our environment.

Of course, not all stumps were cut down by people hungry for lumber. Long before the axe and saw were invented, there were stumps of trees felled by lightning or by fire, disease and wind. Wind above all!

The existence of stumps provided a special environment for the whole range of organisms: from fungus to flowering plants and from protozoan to Peromyscus mouse, or, if our cover is to be believed, even children! This unit provides children an opportunity to study the stump environment. "

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