Outstanding Educator
Lu Boren
Lu Boren is a middle school teacher at St. Columba School in Durango, Colorado, who uses PLT materials to teach earth science, chemistry, and biology.
Lu Boren is a middle school teacher at St. Columba School in Durango, Colorado, who uses PLT materials to teach earth science, chemistry, and biology.
Check out these six Project Learning Tree activities to support “teachable moments” related to this classic children’s book and film.
Washington, D.C. might belong to the whole nation as our capital–but it also a place where kids live, learn, and go green.
Sixth grade students at Glenvar Middle School in Salem, Va., built raised beds and cooked their own food. This “Project Produce” has encouraged healthy lifestyles in the classroom and at home.
Rob Taylor is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator and Science Teacher for the elementary, middle, and high schools in Jay, Maine.
Diane St. Jean teaches reading at Barrington Middle School in Barrington, New Hampshire, where she uses PLT to connect her students to their local forest.
A foundation of PLT’s broad-based curriculum is support and enrichment of a variety of teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students alike. PLT activities …
A large, diverse Title 1 public school and a small, private school in Houston both use PLT’s GreenSchools program to meet the needs of students.
Try these teaching ideas to provide students with different learning styles and abilities multiple avenues to acquire and process content.
Nature helps children’s development–intellectually, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and physically. Studies show that teaching outdoors produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts and math.