Family Activity: Web of Life
Explore food webs and discover the many ways that plants and animals are connected.
Explore food webs and discover the many ways that plants and animals are connected.
Observe the annual change of seasons and investigate why leaves turn colors in the fall.
Trace a tree’s life events using “tree cookies,” the cross sections of trees.
Take a closer look at leaves, their characteristics, and how they can be used to identify plants.
Meet plants and animals living in, on, and around trees and how they depend on trees to survive.
Examine a tree’s lifecycle and find similarities to lifecycles of other living things.
A PLT Outstanding Educator shares her adaptations and useful resources for conducting Project Learning Tree’s Forest Consequences lesson from the PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide.
Engage students in STEM to examine the physical characteristics of leaves and investigate how they can be used to identify trees with Project Learning Tree’s Looking At Leaves activity.
Help students visualize and better understand the function of the inner parts of a tree trunk by creating this easy-to-make visual aid.
Grade K-5 readers are invited to play a game of I Spy to find urban wildlife along with this story’s main character, a family dog named Scooter.