Human impacts on forest ecosystems is the focus of this Grade 6 Science resource on trees and forests. Students examine how human activities can change forest habitats over time and explore how fragmentation, pollution, and invasive species can affect species and ecosystems.

🌲 Investigate Human Effects on Forests

This resource moves beyond naming environmental problems by asking students to connect human activities with ecological impacts. Students consider how changes to forest habitats can influence species and ecosystems, while using evidence from a passage to answer questions about those impacts.

The lesson provides a focused way to explore forest ecosystem change through key ideas including habitat fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, species relationships, and ecological impacts. Students practise interpreting information and supporting answers with evidence rather than relying only on recall.

📝 What Students Work Through

• Multiple-choice questions focused on human activities and their effects on forest habitats
• True-or-false questions reinforcing concepts related to fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, and ecosystems
• Short-answer questions requiring students to explain ecological impacts
• A reading passage followed by evidence-based questions
• A matching activity connecting information and concepts
• A cloze passage for applying key ideas in context
• An essay requiring a more developed response about human impacts
• A “Did You Know?” feature that adds relevant context

📦 What Comes With the Resource

• Student worksheet on human impacts on forest ecosystems
• Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement for reinforcing the lesson content
• Separate Teacher Guide PDF with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

🔎 Built for Evidence-Based Science Practice

Use this forest ecosystems worksheet for classroom practice, lesson reinforcement, independent work, review, or discussion. The reading-based questions give students an opportunity to extract evidence and apply it to ecological impacts, while the written tasks provide opportunities to explain ideas in their own words.

For a Grade 6 trees and forests unit, the resource gives teachers a ready-to-use way to address how human actions can alter forest habitats and affect species over time. The accompanying student notes and teacher guidance support lesson preparation, classroom discussion, and identification of common misunderstandings.