Canopy Connections 2015
- Reached over 200 students, from 6th-8th grade
- Four schools from the Willamette Valley participated
- 50+ page curriculum, specific to the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
- Over half the students in each class had identified (in field notebooks) Oregon grape, salal, sword fern, Douglas-fir, western hemlock, and lobaria lichen, all important flora in an old-growth forest of the Pacific Northwest
- Every student could list the four key elements of a map, as well as identify the OWLS acronym
"The memories made during the tree climb will be ones remembered for a long time. The mapping station and the journal (poem) writing was another station that left a great impression. Sitting still and listening didn't seem hard for these middle schoolers. It must have been the shared poem and the directions that set them up for success. In a post writing assignment, many wrote of OWLS in reference to characteristics of an old growth forest."
-Pam Brandt, teacher at Prairie Mountain Middle School
" [Nick] did a great job of facilitating and teaching. He used language and examples/explanations the kids would understand and gave them hands on experience and used comparisons of things they would see/do in their daily lives to what they are seeing and experiencing that day."
-Bre Larsen, parent chaperone
Undergraduate Symposium: This opportunity enables students to share their research and ideas with the community and inspire other undergraduates to take on their own research. Through a ten minute oral presentation, Canopy Connections will inform the local community on the mission, outcomes and products of our project.