Project Learning Tree has released a new curriculum guide to engage kindergarten through grade 8 students in exploring their environment. It includes 50 field-tested, hands-on activities that integrate investigations of nature with science, math, English language arts, and social studies using hands-on classroom studies and outdoor field investigations.
Go back to My K-8 Guide Storylines ensure connectivity and continuity between individual activities and can serve as the “instructional glue” that bind many areas …
A Guide to Teaching and Learning About Forests PLT’s Forest Literacy Framework translates the complex language of forests, trees, forest practices, and sustainable forest …
forests managed meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by practicing a land stewardship …
an area of land covered with trees.
The collection of trees growing in a city or town, including woodlands, street trees, and trees in parks and gardens.
a forest area composed of intermingled trees that differ markedly in age.
the layer formed by the crowns of smaller trees in a forest.
a survey of a forest or forest stand to evaluate timber volumes and species composition, to mark trees for harvesting, or to identify other values …
a forest stand containing trees of commercial size and quality suitable for sawing into lumber.
