Activity: Make Your Own Paper
Learners experience firsthand the magic of the paper-making process and the value of trees as a natural resource.
Learners experience firsthand the magic of the paper-making process and the value of trees as a natural resource.
Using simple tools, learners calculate the height of a tree and width of its trunk, and find out why foresters measure trees.
Trees provide a host of benefits—from oxygen to shade to wildlife habitat. Learners help select and plant a tree for the future.
Learners examine tree cross-sections to determine their age and to infer environmental conditions during the tree’s life.
We were thrilled to see PLT prominently featured on CNN Health last month! Check out this article and accompanying video that showcases how PLT is supporting educators and parents in a growing movement to get kids outdoors, not only during the pandemic, but also as a way for using nature and the outdoors for improving children’s health and social and emotional learning.
Working with natural materials helps students form deeper connections with the outside world. Try these holiday craft ideas using natural materials.
PLT’s hands-on activity collections offers fun and multi-disciplinary activities that connect youth in grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 to nature and the outdoors.
Biodiversity Blitz is the third in a new series of theme-based PLT activity collections. It features three PLT activities for educators of students in grades 3-5 that invite learners to investigate the variety of species in an ecosystem, and how this variety – or biodiversity – helps sustain life on Earth.
Colorado PLT Coordinator Danielle Ardrey shares how to adapt the PLT Activity “The Closer You Look” for remote instruction. Students will go outdoors or view pictures to take a closer look at trees and their parts.
Even though students may be very familiar with trees, they may not have thought much about the actual structure of a tree. In this activity, …