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The Great Role of the Forest
Organisation

ASPAPEL (Spanish Association of Paper Manufactures)

Spanish Ministry of Environment

ASPAPEL. Avenida de Baviera, 15, 28028 Madrid (Spain)
Ph: +34 91 5763003
fax: +34 915774710

 Ministry of Environment, Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz, s/n 28071-Madrid (Spain)
ph: +34 91 5976000
Age group
 10-14 years old
Topic
The Forest: management and usage
Goal
To analyze “The Great Role of the Forest” and how it affects our lives. To raise curiosity of children regarding forest and ecosystem issues and to improve their knowledge about.
Resources

Suite of didactive and multimedia based material about the sustainable use of forests. It comprises a set of board games (i.e. puzzles, jigsaw, quiz game, etc), as well as CD-rom, video, comic and an annual drawing contest on uses of paper in our daily life.

The Forest The Factory Forest products Let's Recycle!
Task
You have to follow the instructions you are given as you play the following stages:

1- The Forest: Fight the fire and test your knowledge on type of trees. (Four game set)
2- The Factory: Learn about the paper cycle and its production process. (Two game set)
3- Forest Products: Discover the wide variety of products which the forest offer. (Four game set)
4- Let's Recycle: Learning-by-doing. Recycle yourself the paper and cardboard. (Four game set)

Description and Evaluation
Edufores is an integral educational program. The website is a window to the forest’s world. It has many materials on this topic with valuable information about the main role that forest plays in our society: economically, socially and, of course, ecologically. Through several different multimedia resources you will learn about forest’s flora and fauna, products we can obtain from it, etc. Therefore, if we know how important forest is and value it properly we will defend it better.