STEM: Sounds Around
Have students discover the birds living in their backyard or on their block by using their sense of hearing with these STEM activities. How many unique bird species can you identify using only their song?
Resources for Lessons
Islandborn
This book is a celebration of diversity, reminding young readers, 5-8 years, that we are living links between the past and the present. What can knowing about your history teach you about your future? Read Islandborn to find out!
7th-9th Grade Activities for Budding Environmental Scientists
As a 7th grade Environmental Science teacher, I often turn to PLT for ideas and inspiration. So when my state adopted new environmental science content and guidelines earlier this year, I took a deep breath and opened my trustworthy PreK-8 Guide for inspiration. It’s helped me through previous curriculum and standards changes in years past, and not surprisingly, I found more than 15 engaging activities to strongly correlate with the new state guidelines.
STEM: Nature’s Recyclers
Decomposers live off dead material and recycle nutrients into the soil for reuse by plants. These STEM activities teach students about producers, consumers, and decomposers.
A Day in a Forested Wetland
Introduce biodiversity to young readers through this nonfiction picture book that explores a typical day for animals that call a soggy forest home.
Celebrating Bat Week
By Jennifer Byerly
Bat Week is Oct. 24-Oct. 31! Use this national event (timed with Halloween) to teach kids about the important role bats play as insect eaters, pollinators, and seed spreaders. To celebrate, we’ve gathered some free downloadable activities, arts and crafts, writing prompts, and other projects for all ages to learn about bat conservation.
Going Green: 8 Activities to Teach Sustainability in Your Classroom
Supplement your curriculum across subject areas with these 8 easy activities with a sustainability theme for middle school students.
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.
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.