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Forest and Timber Management PoM-Mar-'15. Be an employee of a forest management company |
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 World of Work  Becoming a(n)... Employees of forest management companies  Context The task is taken from the field of forest and timber management Role Students are employees of the Austrian Bundesforste and support landowners in forest management tasks Activity Students calculate the volume of wood in a stand of trees, based on provided, authentic data. Product Students summarise their results in a report, which the landowner will receive for information purposes. |
Abstract Forest areas need to be managed. Many landowners engage a forest management company for this. In this task students calculate, as employees of a forest management company, the volume of wood in a forest area as well as the necessary amount of trees for the afforestation of a felling site. Both are services requested from the private owner of a piece of land. From a list of plant species students can select young trees and give an evaluation of the costs to be expected. Their product will be a written report summarising the most important results, possibly containing diagrams and sketches. They will present their results to their co-workers in a short presentation. When working on this task, students have to use and comprehend the data provided in tables, to apply given formulas and give reasons for it, to perform simple calculations, elaborate strategies and summarise results. Documents Copyright/Creative Commons Mascil partner: AT  Materials are published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.    |
Inquiry Learning Inquiry Learning Dimensions - Exploring situations ✓ - Planning Investigations - Experimenting systematically - Interpreting and evaluating ✓ - Communicating results ✓ Discipline - Mathematics ✓ - Biology ✓ - Physics - Chemistry - Engineering Target group - Primary Education - Lower Secondary Education ✓ - Upper Secondary Education Age range 11-15 Duration 150 min. |
