National Environmental Education Week 2021

EE Week (April 19-23) is the nation’s largest annual celebration of environmental education. Bookmark these resources to help students celebrate each day, learn about nature, and their connection to the environment.

21 Tree Art Projects for Young Learners

We’ve gathered a variety of art projects for Preschool through Grade 2 children involving handprints, mosaics, found objects such as sticks and leaves, and repurposed materials such as egg cartons to get students excited and thinking about trees.

Cyberchase Workshop with PLT

PLT recently joined PBS’s Cyberchase for a 20-minute Workshop on Facebook Live that demonstrated the many fun ways children and their families can take inspiration from nature to create My Tree Journal pages adapted from our new Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide’s Adopt a Tree activity.

E-Summit 2021

Join us for PLT’s E-summit May 18th and 19th. We will explore opportunities in light of positive change; brainstorm pathways to advance equity and inclusivity …

PLT Releases New Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide

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.

Units of Instruction

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 …

[Archive] PLT’S FOREST LITERACY FRAMEWORK

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 …

SUSTAINABLY MANAGED FORESTS

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 …

WOODLAND

an area of land covered with trees.