STEM: Habitat Pen Pals
Challenge students to use their creative skills to define a habitat, investigate related species, engineer a wildlife corridor, and manipulate an interactive model to demonstrate population growth.
Challenge students to use their creative skills to define a habitat, investigate related species, engineer a wildlife corridor, and manipulate an interactive model to demonstrate population growth.
Forest for the Tree’s Digital Pocket Guide includes 12 ready-to-use, hands-on activities that engage middle-school-aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and the environment. Click …
Below are some helpful lessons, tips, and resources to assist educators with activity ideas for remote teaching and virtual learning, and parents with homeschooling. Many …
Follow the story of Fatima and the Khazi family, immigrants to the United States, on their very first camping trip together and gain insight into diverse cultural perspectives around the outdoors.
A preschool curriculum director describes her school’s focus on the outdoors and nature and how PLT helped give their teachers and students some structure and new ideas for ways to deepen study.
While some fires naturally occur and help keep forest ecosystems healthy, 84% of wildfires are caused by human-related activities. Help children learn what causes wildfires and how to prevent them with these student activities.
Explore tree structure and scale by using different methods to measure them. In this activity, children will measure trees in different ways and become familiar …
A Guide to Teaching and Learning About Forests PLT’s Forest Literacy Framework translates the language of forests and sustainable forest management into concepts for everyone …
The degree to which trees dominate a given geography, often expressed as a percentage of the spatial extent (eg. “the tree cover in that urban …
Removal of trees from a forest to restore ecological health or to obtain income from the wood products.