Resources for Activity 6: Story of Succession

Overview:
By using a local forest as a guide, students will be able to identify the various stages of
forest succession. Students will observe successional growth as it happens in three
experimental test plots. In this activity, they will learn the ways succession is affected by
wind, fire, disease, and human intervention.

Subjects: Ecology, Environmental Science, Math.

Student Pages
Tree Tops Valley
Tree Tops Valley Discussion Questions
Successional Stages

Urban and Community Forestry Website Connections
www.plt.org/cms/urbanforestry

Earth & Sky Radio Correlations
This activity can be supplemented with related Earth & Sky radio shows that you can download for use in your classroom. Learn about the PLT and Earth & Sky Initiative.

Related Earth & Sky Shows:
- Neil Sampson Says Climate Change Speeding Flux of Forest Ecosystems  (2008) 
- Sally Collins: 'No one expected forest fires to become so big a factor, so quickly'  (2008)  
- Jo Pierce’s Tree Farm Sustained with Careful, Long-term thinking (2008) 
- Jo Pierce: 'Private forests mean income, and much more' (2008)  
- Sally Collins, with an Overview of U.S. Forests in the Early 21st Century (2008)
- Sally Collins: 6,000 Acres of Open Land Lost to Development Daily (2008)