Exploring Environmental Issues: Biodiversity is an excellent series offered by Project Learning to explore the subject of Biodiversity at the secondary school level.

The program was developed in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund and address a broad range of concepts involved with Environmental Issues. It is available as a free download from Project Learning Tree.

Objective: Students will be able to define the concept and value of a sustained-yield forestⁱ. As a "capstone" activity, students also will be able to apply the unit's learnings in a community activity.

Learning Skills:
- critical reasoning
- ecology
- forestry

Lessons:

Objective: Students will be able to define the concept and value of renewable resources and be able to distinguish between renewable and non-renewable resources.

Learning Skills:
- natural science
- consumer awareness
- classification

Lessons:

Parts I & II: