The e-units are everything you expect from Project Learning Tree: Hands-on and engaging activities that help teach students how – not what – to think about the environment and their place within it. They also make teaching and learning fun.
Students will develop an understanding about how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecosystems, and the ways in which trees and humans interact.
Students will investigate the ways organisms depend on each other to survive and thrive. They will come to understand the interactions present in ecosystems.
This e-unit provides activities and resources to help educators introduce some of the complex issues involved in climate change.
Hands-On Activities
Get students excited about science through hands-on activities, rather than simply memorizing facts.
Meets NGSS Standards
The e-units are constructed around targeted performance expectations of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Flexible Curriculum
Use activities as stand-alone investigations, or move through all the e-unit activities from beginning to end.
Project Learning Tree ’s e-units feature comprehensive, interactive connections to academic standards: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Math, and the C3 Framework for Social Studies.
Teachers who subscribe to an e-unit from Project Learning Tree will have access to quality learning activities any time, anywhere.
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Whether you regularly use the outdoors as a classroom or tend to hesitate every time you take your class outside, this unit is an invitation to increase the quantity and quality of your K-2 learners’ contact with nature and trees.
Treemendous Science! students will explore, experience, observe, and collect tree data to develop understandings about how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecological systems, and the ways in which trees and humans interact.
A unique feature of Treemendous Science! is that it’s organized around three mini-units geared to different developmental levels. You have the option of presenting one level in its entirety or picking and choosing from the different levels, depending on the needs of your students.
The Energy in Ecosystems e-unit investigates the ways in which organisms depend on each other to survive and thrive. Students focus on forests—one of the largest and most complex types of ecosystems—and come to understand some of the interactions present in all ecosystems. In doing so, they learn to appreciate the natural systems on which we depend and begin to widen their circle of compassion to include all of nature.
This unit is designed as an introduction to ecosystems and some of the ways that organisms interact within ecosystems.
Perhaps more than any other environmental issue, the topic of climate change challenges science teachers to accurately convey data, reveal assumptions, and engage critical-thinking skills. Project Learning Tree's Carbon & Climate e-unit provides activities and resources to help educators meet these challenges, introducing students to some of the complex issues involved in climate change.
This unit is designed as an introduction to climate science and its associated social, political, and environmental challenges.
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.
For the last 40 years, Project Learning Tree has trained 700,000 educators to help students learn how to think, not what to think about complex environmental issues.
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