Wood Magic at Virginia Tech

This September 16th, 2008, the Department of Wood Science and Forest Products and the Virginia Forest Products Association will host the 11th annual, award winning Wood Magic Show On Campus.

Wood Magic at Virginia Tech is a natural resource education program for youth and educators.

The materials contained in Wood Magic are designed to assist educators with teaching children about environmental science, particularly wood science and forestry. The activities engage the students in doing, reflecting, and applying wood science to their daily world.

Activities and curricula are designed around Virginia's Standards of Learning. Students discover the ways wood impacts their daily lives and how wood utilization influences our natural environment. They formulate relationships between wood, science, and technology, and they experience real world applications to theoretical knowledge attained from their regular science courses.

The Annual On Campus Wood Magic is designed for 4 th and 5 th grade classrooms. It is meant to be a supplement to information that students study in their existing science curriculum, and the participants take part in a variety of activities, demonstrations, and experiments.

For more information please contact:

Audrey Zink-Sharp, Professor
Department of Wood Science and Forest Products
Virginia Tech, 230 Cheatham Hall, Mail Code 0323
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540)-231-8820, E-mail: agzink@vt.edu

Last Updated: 7/26/2007