How has LEAF been

implemented in México
Learning About Forests

In México, LEAF focuses on learning about

the forestal environmental services.
Through the programme topics and cultural
heritage for nature conservation that comes
from the native towns. The most important
tool is reforestation that allows schools to Climate Change
engage the whole families and impact the
community.

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Programme Objectives
• •Increase the level of awareness and
knowledge about the role that forests
play in the sustainable life of our
planet.
• •Encourage activities that help
students to reach a greater level of
environmental maturity regardless of
their age and previous knowledge. Climate Change

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 Programme Objectives
Reconnect
Learning About Forests (LEAF) inspire a
sense of belonging with their natural
environment. Through this programme,
students regain an admiration for the
forest. Let them remind them of the
importance that the environment has in
our lives.
Educate
Through project-based learning, the LEAF
programme educates about all aspects of
the forest environment, encouraging
students to understand and become
more involved with their environment.
Programme Objectives
Protect
Inspire
We encourage students through
illustrative media and field trips to realize Learning About Forests inspires students
how important it is to protect and to use their forests and appreciate all the
enhance our forests. Sustainability is wonderful things they do for us from the
always the axis of the campaigns of this wood we use to the oxygen we breathe.
programme, also for the Foundation for
Environmental Education.
LEAF encourages environmental education through
awareness among students, teachers, and the
community at large.

LEAF aligns with:

• Education for Sustainable Development

(ESD).

• Global Action Programme (GAP).

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

The programme analyzes all the functions of forests

Ecological Economic

Social Cultural
 LEAF Award

Schools that complete the Forest Cycle receive a

Certificate of Achievement in recognition of their
work. In several countries, they obtain an award in
the form of a LEAF plaque. Schools work through
the cycle and, once they have completed the cycle,
the school applies for the LEAF Award. Once a
school obtain the award, it could renew it each
year.

The National Operator is responsible

for the evaluation and delivery of
the LEAF award in their own
countries.
 Forest Cycle
The Forest Cycle methodology is a series of steps
designed to help schools succeed in their LEAF
goals. While the LEAF Award will be awarded to
schools that complete all essential elements of
the Forest Cycle, it should be remembered that
the programme is flexible and that different
countries will find different routes to achieve the
LEAF Award.

• Forest Committee.
• Research.
• Action plan.
• Check and report progress.
• Inform and Involve.
• Forest Code.
 LEAF Pedagogical Cycle

Look and Observe: Encouraging Explore: Dig Deeper to find out

young people to look around and more. The student travels through the
observe nature involves them unknown and discovers new
perceiving things around them, information. All discoveries that have
things they might not be paying improved the world are rewards of
attention to, for example, trees, exploration.
birds, insects, or human interactions
and forests.

Function: The function can take

many forms, such as developing an
interest in flora and fauna, service
Analyze: Helps young people
learning, sustainable consumption,
visualize information and use their
passing time outdoors, participating in
critical thinking skills to make sense of
conservation actions, etc. In other
the underlying structures or
words, take responsibility for our
components that sustain life on Earth
actions and their impact.
and meet our daily needs.
Reproduction of oaks for the
sacred water forest
Since 2012, the schools that participate in FEE
México's educational programmes have been
working with the idea of reforesting and
collecting water in the biological zone called:
Sacred water forest Ajusco-Chichinautzin, one of
the last areas of central forest in México.
Due to the economic value of oak wood,
deforestation in the area has become a severe
problem. Given the relevant ecological role that
tree roots play in facilitating water infiltration and
aquifer recharge, the schools decided to lead an
oak reforestation project to address the problem
of water scarcity.

Agricultural Technical High School # 56“Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez”

(the children attended the reforestation and planted some trees
with a family member or classmate).
Reproduction of oaks for
the sacred water forest

The objective of this project was to collect and

grow acorns. Also, teach students about the
fragility of forests and the environmental services
that forests provide.
Forest regeneration offers a handful and
sustainable solutions to the problem of water
scarcity by increasing the forest's water
harvesting capacity in the higher areas of the
Sacred Water Forest Ajusco Chichinautzin.

Agricultural Technical High School # 56 “Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez”

(the children attended the reforestation and planted some trees
with a family member or classmate).
 Reproduction of oaks for the
sacred water forest
Schools have become leaders in local
communities. So, the environmental activities
implemented by teachers are well received by the
children's families. Since 2012, participation has
increased dramatically, along with a growing
sense of environmental heritage and good
collaboration between different generations.

Agricultural Technical High School # 56 “Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez”

(Some parents attended the reforestation and joined this important
action for the environment).
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