As a result of the cooperation between the Model Forest Istria and FSC International (Adria Balkan office),
"FOREST KNOWLEDGE BOXES" - 5 booklets with different topics about forests:
- What is a forest?
- The diversity of forests and trees
- The magnificent benefits of forests
- Forest fruits and resources
- Let's save our forests!
"Knowledge Boxes" offer us content about forests in a very interactive way; through practice, research, the Did You Know? section, through rich media content and additional sources.
In each "knowledge box" you can check your acquired knowledge through an interactive quiz and have fun learning new content.
These materials were created for ages 12 to 17, for independent research by students, but also to supplement the material in high school classes. They were created in collaboration with students and teachers from secondary schools: Delnice Forestry School (professors Janka Indir, Darko Vukelić), Delnice High School (professor Iva Kezele) and Pula High School (professors Petra Peharec, Alen Crnković).
Read more about testing the "forest knowledge boxes" in secondary schools here.
Students gave us very valuable comments on how to enrich the interactivity in the manual, and we included their ideas about keywords and interactive quizzes in the final phase of creating the manual.
Since the materials are also intended as a tool for secondary school teachers, we also produced them in PowerPoint format so that teachers can present them in class and cover one of the "forest" topics that we bring in this manual.
"Forest Knowledge Boxes" - all knowledge about forests in one place, from biological, ecological, economic and sociological aspects of forests, were created as a response to the insufficient representation of the topic of forests in school curricula, but also due to the lack of such educational materials in the Croatian language.
The materials are free and available for download at the following links:
- in Croatian
- in English
Feel free to share, use and learn about forests through fun and research.
Author: Model Forest Istra
Design: Sacrix
Publishers: MŠ Istra, FSC Adria Balkan 2025.
