Family Activity: Signs of Fall
Observe the annual change of seasons and investigate why leaves turn colors in the fall.
Resources for Lessons
Family Activity: Tree Cookies
Trace a tree’s life events using “tree cookies,” the cross sections of trees.
Family Activity: Looking at Leaves
Take a closer look at leaves, their characteristics, and how they can be used to identify plants.
Family Activity: Trees as Habitats
Meet plants and animals living in, on, and around trees and how they depend on trees to survive.
Family Activity: Tree Lifecycle
Examine a tree’s lifecycle and find similarities to lifecycles of other living things.
Help Students Work Out a Land Issue with Forest Consequences
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.
STEM: Looking at Leaves
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.
An Easy-to-Make Model that Explains the Inner Parts of a Tree
Help students visualize and better understand the function of the inner parts of a tree trunk by creating this easy-to-make visual aid.
Wild Ones, Observing City Critters
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.
Burst into Spring with Project BudBurst and PLT!
Get your students to contribute to scientific research by joining thousands of others in gathering environmental and climate change information from across the country.