Hi Sean,

Your question is very similar to one I asked not long ago, and which was almost completely ignored. Please have a look here, for inspiration: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kwongan-Foundation/840590692628765.

Regards,

Hans 

Hi Sean, we are going to start a project with two groups, with kids from 10 to 13 and another with kids ranging from 13 - 17. And thank you for the contact Hans. 

Hello Sean, thank you for our reply. I didn´t know there were forest schools in Canada. I was there in 2013 for six months at York University and nobody mentioned them. I´ll have a look at the webpage, thank you very much, and even if their programs are for younger children, the idea of a forest school is already very appealing. 

Hello.  I'm not sure this is appropriate for you but it is one approach we applied to the concept of restoration of tropical forest.  The most accessible reference is:

Pratt, R. T., F. L. Carpenter and B. Tomlinson. 2006. “The EcoRaft Project: An interdisciplinary approach to teaching lessons in ecological restoration.” In: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. Vol. 87, No. 2. April 2006, p. 176-182.

Also,

Tomlinson, B., M. L. Yau, E. Baumer, S. Goetz, L. Carpenter, R. Pratt, K. Young, C. May-Tobin. 2006. "The EcoRaft Project: A Multi-Device Interactive Graphical Exhibit for Learning about Restoration Ecology." In: ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2006), Work in Progress. Montreal, Canada. p. 1445-1450.

For more information you should contact Dr. Bill Tomlinson at the University of California, Irvine.  Good luck!

Lynn Carpenter, Professor Emerita

Hello Lynn, thank you, I´ll have a look.