Stewardship practices and landscape benefits are the focus of this Grade 6 Science resource on trees and forests. Students explore how planting, shelterbelts, urban canopy programs, and Indigenous land care can support ecosystems in Alberta while connecting local actions to changes in landscapes over time.

🌲 Connect Stewardship to Ecosystem Benefits

Students describe how different land stewardship practices can support ecosystems and examine the cause-and-effect relationships behind those actions. The resource focuses on how local stewardship can improve habitat connectivity, carbon storage, and water regulation over time. Students also use stewardship vocabulary to explain relationships between actions and landscape benefits.

📚 What Teachers Receive

• ✔️ Student worksheet focused on stewardship practices and landscape benefits
• ✔️ Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement for reviewing key concepts
• ✔️ Separate Teacher Guide with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes

📝 Varied Practice and Application

The worksheet includes multiple-choice questions, true-or-false questions, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, a cloze passage, an essay, and a “did you know” section. Students move beyond recalling vocabulary by applying stewardship ideas to a new scenario and identifying suitable practices alongside their expected benefits.

🏫 Classroom Use

Use this Grade 6 trees and forests worksheet for classroom practice, lesson reinforcement, independent work, or review. The student notes provide a focused reference for key ideas, while the teacher guide supports instruction with discussion questions, teaching tips, learning objectives, and common mistakes to consider.

With its focus on Alberta ecosystems and land stewardship, this resource gives students a practical way to connect human actions with ecological outcomes. It supports discussion of how decisions made locally can influence habitat, carbon storage, and water regulation across the landscape over time.