STEM: Resource-Go-Round
Students identify some of their favorite and essential products that come from a renewable resource—trees!—and research how they are manufactured.
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Better Together: Mutualistic Relationships Between Plants and Insects
Plants help protect insects, and insects help plants pollinate and disperse seeds. Learn about some specialized symbiotic relationships that benefit both organisms involved.
What’s Growing in Your Garden?
Project Learning Tree schools share lessons teachers learned after starting a class garden.
New Tree Campus K-12 Program of the Arbor Day Foundation
A new recognition program of the Arbor Day Foundation provides a simple framework and resources for using trees as a learning tool for students.
Most Unwanted: Invasive Insects in U.S. Forests
An invasive species is any kind of organism that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm to the environment, economy and possibly even human health. Lymantria dispar, Asian longhorned beetles, emerald ash borers, and woolly adelgids are among the growing list of invasive insects that threaten U.S. forests and urban landscapes.
PLT Activities Can Now Help Scouts Earn Their Merit Badges
PLT collaborated with the Boy Scouts of America to correlate PLT activities to the requirements for many Cub Scout Adventures and Scouts BSA merit badges.
Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Bats
Four teachers share their experiences from students’ GreenWorks! projects to help pollinators with native plant gardens, a bee keeping operation, and constructing bat houses.
PLT GreenSchools Honored as 2019 Green Ribbon Schools
The awards acknowledge students, teachers, and administrators who reduce their school’s environmental impact and utility costs, improve health and wellness, and incorporate effective sustainability education.
PLT’s Leadership in Education Award
PLT’s Leadership in Education Award recognizes those who make significant contributions to advance PLT programs and initiatives at the state or regional level.
Forests and Water: Advisor Training for Envirothon 2020
This day-long workshop in Raleigh, NC on August 1, 2019 will prepare teachers/advisors who will coach high school student teams in the 2020 Envirothon competition.