National Association of Conservation Districts
NACD's mission is to serve conservation districts by providing national leadership and a unified voice for natural resource conservation.
Forestry Education Resources
NACD has created education materials to teach youth and adults the importance of forests in our everyday life.

Forestry Education Materials
NACD Marketplace
"Forests for People – More Than You Can Imagine!" education materials will be available for purchase at www.nacdstore.org starting February 14. Shipments will start five to ten business days after orders are placed. There will be a 10% discount available on orders placed by March 15th. Please use code nacdFP2011 at checkout.
Forestry Education Materials List
Materials will be available in January for ordering.
Download a flyer of all "Forests for People – More Than You Can Imagine" education materials you will be able to purchase from the NACD Marketplace. Available materials include student booklets in English and Spanish (New this year!), posters, bookmarks, placemat/activity sheet, CD with PowerPoints for youth and adults and more!
Online Sample Packet Preview
Preview the sample packet products before you purchase them. These online PDF files of the forestry education materials cannot be printed, but they give you an opportunity to review items before you buy. See the list of items available for preview below. Sample packets will be available for purchase on the NACD Marketplace.
- Student Booklets
- Level 1 (Grade K-1) | PDF |
- Level 2 (Grade 2-3) | PDF |
- Level 3 (Grade 4-5) | PDF |
- Level 4 (Grade 6 and up) | PDF |
- Bookmark | PDF |
- Activity Sheet/Placemat | PDF |
- Forests for People Poster | PDF |
- Plant a Tree Poster/Booklet | PDF |
- BIG BOOK – Forests For People | PDF |
Stewardship Outreach Survey
Please fill out this survey for your outreach efforts. Surveys turned in by May 3rd will be eligible for one of the three $50 gift certificates to the NACD Marketplace to purchase education material. Please send jpeg photos with captions to susan-schultz@nacdnet.org before May 3rd. Stewardship success stories will be featured in the summer NACD Resource. Additional surveys will be accepted until May 28th. Questions? Contact Susan Schultz 317-326-2952 or susan-schultz@nacdnet.org. | PDF |
Forestry Education Resources
Forestry Educators Guide | PDF |
This online interactive guide is full of great resources to use in the classroom or other educational programs. It contains activities, science standards that complement the "Forests for People – More Than You Can Imagine!" student booklets, literature connections, links to additional forestry outreach materials and more. The educators guide is also available in print in quantities of ten from the NACD Marketplace.
Activity – Life In A Tree Cards (page 9 educators guide) | PDF |
Activity – Forestry Bingo activity cards | PDF |
Forestry Bingo Instructions | PDF |
Forests for People Logo, Clip Art and Images
Download and use the 2011 Forestry theme for promotional and educational purposes.
Flickr Instructions:
1. Select the size you want (from the list directly above the image.)
2. Click "download the (selected size) size of this photo."
3. Open with your preferred image program and save to your computer.
- Forests for People (high resolution on flickr)
- Forests for People (low resolution on flickr)
- International Year of Forests (high resolution on flickr)
- International Year of Forests (low resolution on flickr)
- Forests for People and International Year of Forests (high resolution on flickr)
- Forests for People and International Year of Forests (low resolution on flickr)
- Forestry Clip Art
Forestry Activity and Resource Information
Tree Planting
Hoosier Heartland RC&D – Plant A Million
Arbor Day
Arbor Day (video)
Forests for Watersheds
Activities
- Project Learning Tree (PLT)
- Natural Inquirer – USDA Forest Service
- See the Ecosystem Services Issue as well as the many other issues
- USDA Forest Service Conservation Education
- Discover the Forest
- Dr. Arbor Talks Trees
- Lesson Plans and resources
- Arbor Day Foundation Lesson Plans
Resources
- NACD Forestry Notes Newsletter
- USDA Forest Service
- American Forest Foundation
- Celebrate Forests
- Visit the site to find out what is happening in your state for the Year of Forest celebration.
- The site will also allow you to submit your events that you are hosting to celebrate NACD Stewardship Week, local conservation district forestry outreach events that you will be hosting during 2011.
- "National Walk in the Woods Day" will be held on May 21.
- Urban and Community Forests Resources
- Arbor Day Foundation
- Resource Categories
- National Association of State Foresters
- Forestry Organizations
- World Forestry Center
- Forestry Careers
- Forestry Education Resources from Online Education Database
- Working Trees For Agriculture
- Working Trees For Communities
- Working Trees For Water Quality
- Working Trees For Wildlife
- Working Trees For Livestock
- Working Trees: Silvopasture
- Working Trees For Treating Waste
- Working Trees For Carbon Cycle Balance
- Working Trees For Carbon: Windbreaks In The U.S
- USDA Forest Service Clmate Change Resource Center
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Plant-Trees.org Carbon Calculator
Working Trees
Working Trees is a series of publications by the National Agroforestry Center. These color publications each illustrate various agroforestry practices that landowners can apply to help meet their production and conservation objectives. Click above for the archive or below for individual resources.
Carbon Calculators
Forestry Stewardship Week
Learn more about the 56th NACD Stewardship Week (April 24 –May 1, 2011)
If you have any questions regarding Stewardship Week, please email stewardship@nacdnet.org.