Experts from the SDP and the Shumen Plateau Nature Reserve presented original lessons during the first National Meeting of Forest Educators, which was held at the Yundola Forestry Educational Service. During the forum, some of the new lessons for this year related to survival in the forest, map orientation and tourist trails, pitching tents and preparing a camp were demonstrated, and the lesson by Alexandrina Kareva from the Smyadovo Forestry Educational Service aroused the greatest interest among the participants. Kareva showed her original developmentA three-hour lesson designed for children in the first and second groups of kindergarten. In addition to practical tasks, the lesson uses a specially prepared booklet, which explains to children in an accessible way how the forest appears, which animal eats what and why we should protect nature. The participants also made their own cards from natural materials, and a natural barometer made from a pine cone was also demonstrated.
Games related to frogs and their habitats were prepared by experts from Vitosha Nature Reserve. Their original and cheerful ideas managed to make everyone laugh, but most importantly, with them the children will learn what a swamp is, how frogs feed, why tadpoles have tails and what needs to be done to preserve one of the most valuable ecosystems in nature. At the end of the lesson, the girls and boys from Vitosha Nature Reserve and the forest educators had fun singing "The Frog in the Swamp" with their own arrangement. Andreana Trifonova from the Youth Center for the Development of Forestry and Forestry showed a lesson about the owl, and forest educators from the Youth Center for the Development of Forestry and
During the forum, the forest educators decided to create their own website, promotional materials and publish a handbook with all the games used in the lessons. The First National Conference on Forest Pedagogy organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Union of Foresters in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Forestry Association and the South Forestry Association-Blagoevgrad was attended by over 100 educators from the six state-owned enterprises, parks and directorates in the country.