Check out these sample Project Learning Tree activities!
ABRIDGED ACTIVITY FROM PLT’S TREES & ME
Project Learning Tree’s Trees & Me: Activities for Exploring Nature with Young Children includes 12 activities and more than 250 learning experiences for families and teachers to connect children ages 1–6 to nature, with a focus on trees.
Download this free, abridged version of Activity 10, Home Tweet Home.
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES FROM PLT’S EXPLORE YOUR ENVIRONMENT GUIDE
Project Learning Tree’s Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment.
Free Sample Activity for Grades K-2
– Backyard Safari
Students will go outside (whether it’s the school playground, a local park, or their backyard), look for signs of animal life, and consider how animals in their area get food, water, and shelter. Download this free sample activity.
Free Sample Activity for Grades 3-5
– Charting Biodiversity
Students will learn how animals in different environments have adapted to where they live, why there are so many different species, and the value of biodiversity. Download this free sample activity.
Free Sample Activity for Grades 6-8
– Field, Forest, and Stream
Students will observe how living and nonliving components (for example, sunlight, soil moisture, temperature, wind, and water flow) affect ecosystems. Download this free sample activity.
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES FROM PLT’S E-UNITS
Treemendous Science!
– Picture a Tree
Designed for K-2 teachers, Treemendous Science! helps young learners explore, experience, observe, and collect data about trees. Download this free sample activity and take your students outdoors for a closer look at trees and their parts.
Energy in Ecosystems
– Web of Life
Designed for 3rd-5th grade teachers, Energy in Ecosystems investigates ways in which organisms depend on each other to survive and thrive. Download this free sample activity to help students learn about food webs and discover the many ways that plants and animals of a forest ecosystem are connected.
Carbon & Climate
– Carbon Cycle in Action
Designed for 6th-8th grade teachers, Carbon & Climate provides activities and resources to help educators introduce students to some of the complex issues involved in climate change. Download a free sample worksheet for middle school students to explore the carbon cycle in action.
