Environmental Education is hands-on, interactive learning that sparks the imagination and unlocks creativity. 

Environmental Education enables students to make connections and apply their learning in the real world. 

Environmental Education encourages students to make their own decisions about complex environmental issues.

Environmental Education encourages students to investigate varying sides of issues to understand the full picture.

By incorporating Environmental Education practices into the curriculum, teachers can integrate science, math, and more into one rich lesson.

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By exposing students to nature, Environmental Education fosters respect for the environment.

Environmental Education gets students outside and active, and helps address some of the health issues we are seeing today.

Environmental Education promotes a sense of place and connection through community involvement. 

Environmental Education helps students understand how their decisions and actions affect the environment.

Environmental Education promotes active learning, citizenship, and student leadership. It empowers youth to share their voice.

Project Learning Tree helps develop students’ awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the environment, builds their skills and ability to make informed decisions, and encourages them to take personal responsibility for sustaining the environment and our quality of life that depends on it.