Exploring a Local Park
Get in touch with trees in your local park and use these family activities to take a closer look. Check out more from our collection!
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Activities for Families
When children spend time outside, exploring in nature, it can improve their creativity and imagination, classroom performance, and academic achievement, as well as their overall …
Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood – Activity 1, The Shape of Things
Children search for the shapes and colors that define both our natural and built environments.
PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide – Activity 51, Make Your Own Paper
Students investigate the papermaking process by trying it themselves. Students are thrilled to find that they can make paper and that their product is practical, as well as beautiful. Watch a video of the paper-making process used in this activity.
High School – Focus on Forests – Activity 1, Monitoring Forest Health
Students conduct a health checkup of a local forest or wooded area, take forestry measurements, and evaluate the ecological services provided by trees and forests.
Summer Reading List
From informative nonfiction reads to silly fictional tales, this list separated by grade level will help kids–and adults–stay on top of their reading.
Focus on Forests
High school students develop critical-thinking skills and learn the importance of scientific analysis as they investigate forest management issues and discover benefits of forests .
For Nonformal Educators
Make Learning Fun PLT’s hands-on activities make learning fun for all ages, while also building 21st century skills, stimulating knowledge gains, and actively engaging participants. Activities …
Sample Student Activities
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 …
GreenSchools for Early Childhood
PLT’s GreenSchools for Early Childhood program specifically meets the needs of early childhood educators and younger learners. It is designed to teach young children about …