Sample Agendas for Combined Secondary Module Workshop

Southeastern Forests and Climate Change(SFCC) and Focus on Forests (FOF)

Six Hour Workshop – Agenda 1

15 minWelcome, Introductions, Agenda Overview, Expectations

15 minOrientation to Forest Issues in the Region

45 minIntroduction to PLT and Overviews of FOF and SFCC Modules

Hike through the Guides

30 minSFCC Activity 1: Stepping through Climate Science and Video

15 minQuestions

15 minBreak

45 minFOF Activity 5: Who Owns America’s Forests with Activity 4: Tough Choices

30 minLunch

45 minSFCC Activity 7: Carbon on the Move

FOF Activity 8: Climate Change and Forests (add discussion questions from SFCC Activity 8: Counting Carbon)

45 min Intro to SFCC Activity 10: Adventures in Life Cycle Assessment

SFCC Activity 12: The Carbon Puzzle

15 minBreak

30 minSmall group discussion of how activities can be used

15 minWrap up and Evaluation

Six Hour Workshop – Agenda 2

15 minWelcome, Introductions, Agenda Overview, Expectations

15 minIcebreaker: Tree Parts and Climate Perspectives

30 minSFCC Activity 1: Stepping through Climate Science

45 minOverview of Climate Science

15 minBreak

30 minFOF Activity 4: Tough Choices

30 minIntroduction to PLT and Overviews of FOF and SFCC Modules

Hike through the Guides

30 minLunch

30 minIntroduction to Systems Thinking and Supplemental Systems Exercises on SFCC website

45 minSFCC Activity 5: Managing Forests for Change

15 minBreak

45 minSFCC Activity 7: Carbon on the Move

FOF Activity 8: Climate Change and Forests/SFCC Activity 8: Counting Carbon

15 minWrap up and Evaluation

SFCC and FOF Activity Matrix

Activities that could convey workshop themes / SFCC / FOF
STEM / Stepping Through Climate Science
Managing Forests for Change
Counting Carbon
Adventures in Life Cycle Assessment / Monitoring Forest Health
Story of Succession
Tough Choices
Forest to Faucet
Forest Invaders
Climate Change and Forests
(Note: for more details, see Page 12 of PLT’s STEM Correlations document)
Social Science / Clearing the Air, Part B
The Real Cost
Adventure of Life Cycle Assessment,
LCA Debate
Carbon Puzzle / Who Owns America’s Forests
Tough Choices
The Nature of Fire
Forest to Faucet
Words to Live By
Biology / Atlas of Change
Mapping Seed Sources
Managing Forests for Change
Carbon on the Move
Counting Carbon / Monitoring Forest Health
Story of Succession
The Nature of Fire
Forest Invaders
Middle School / Stepping through Climate Science
Carbon on the Move
Counting Carbon
The Real Cost / Monitoring Forest Health
Story of Succession
The Nature of Fire
Climate Change and Forests

Sample agendas for the SFCC module are available on the SFCC website at

Sample agendas for the FOF module are available through your state PLT coordinator