Butterfly Gardens Come to Life
Sixteen schools across the country participated in the MonarchLIVE project to build butterfly gardens. Here are the stories of three of those schools.
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Lab Coats Paint a Thousand Words
Create your own painted lab coats! These powerful visual tools engage students in learning about science and the environment.
Leadership, Teamwork, and Volunteerism Learned through PLT Activities
Project Learning Tree activities are excellent tools to teach life skills. At a summer leadership camp in Georgia, students learned about leadership, teamwork, and volunteerism.
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Debra Wagner
Debra Wagner uses PLT activities in her fourth grade at St. Paul Lutheran School in Lakeland, Florida, and helped her school become PLT-certified.
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Joy Cowart
Joy Cowart uses PLT to teach language arts and English as a second language to grades 6-12 at Lowndes County Schools in Valdosta, Georgia.
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Reeda Hart
Reeda Hart, a science outreach specialist at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, helped develop PLT’s Early Childhood curriculum.
Outstanding Educator
Susan Cox
Susan Cox, a conservation education coordinator for the U.S. Forest Service in Durham, New Hampshire, forges partnerships between natural resource professionals and educators.
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Kurtis Koll
Kurtis Koll, a professor of physical sciences at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, created a series of environmental education courses for pre-service science teachers.
Outstanding Educator
Barbara Murphy
As Gifted Specialist at Westlawn Middle School in Huntsville, Alabama, Barbara Murphy teaches environmental education and Spanish and conducts enrichment classes.
Outstanding Educator
Sue Keene
Sue Keene, a teacher in residence at the University of Indianapolis in Indiana, is a PLT facilitator who is helping create a PLT technology guide.