Education majors at Louisiana State University (LSU) at Alexandria learned to incorporate the state’s landscape into their classrooms thanks to Project Learning Tree.
State forester Wade Dubea hosted an all-day workshop Tuesday about the national program that incorporates forestry into education.
The Louisiana Office of Forestry got involved in the program in the 1980s, Dubea said. The workshops and materials for teachers are provided through a grant from the U.S. Forest Service.
“He (Dubea) is using forestry to teach conservation principles, but it can be used across all disciplines,” said Amy Robertson, public relations specialist with the Kisatchie National Forest.
Dubea passed out pieces of tree trunks called “tree cookies” to the approximately 20 education majors at the workshop. He demonstrated lessons for several subjects using the tree cookies, asking the LSUA students to find the circumference and diameter of their cookies as a math lesson.
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