| American Chestnut Learning Materials |
Links to materials available for download at no charge
American Chestnut Learning Box
The Learning Box is a work in progress. The link above takes you to explanatory materials created by Dr. Gary Carver to accompany some of the the hands-on items that he has provided for learning boxes in Maryland.
The American Chestnut video by Thomas Nassif
An 18 minute video that tell the story of the chestnut and TACF, documents controlled pollination and shows the basics of hypovirulence.
Charlie Chestnut Environmental Education Program
This classic created by the NY Chapter of TACF has lesson plans and worksheets in a .pdf file that is worth searching for.
American Chestnut Loaner Lab (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute and Towson University)
Download the teacher's manual for the Chestnut Tree Lab. Loaner Lab kits made available to MD schools at no cost. A model for a national package to meet technology SOLs along with teaching chestnut science
Penn State Chestnut Growers Website
Everything a chestnut grower needs to know and much more, including back issues of the TACF Journal and other publications in pdf format.
A great resource for classroom use, with good photos and basic information along with an introduction to some advanced scientific work. This is a publication of the Southern Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF)
TACF links to science and grower resources
TACF links to display panels, slide presentations, backcross breeding charts
Hypovirulence information (MDTACF)