PLT Activity Connections

The activities listed below are a sampling of the many hands-on, interdisciplinary PLT activities that lend themselves to generating ideas for GreenWorks! action projects.

PLT PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide 

Activity Number and Title

21. Adopt a Tree
31. Plant a Tree
32. A Forest of Many Uses
34. Who Works in This Forest?
36. Pollution Search
37. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
47. Are Vacant Lots Vacant?
55. Planning the Ideal Community
57. Democracy in Action
58. There Ought to Be a Law
68. Name That Tree
71. Watch on Wetlands
96. Improve Your Place

PLT Secondary Environmental Education Programs

Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests
This module uses the forest as a "window" into the natural environment, while it helps students gain an awareness and knowledge of the world around them and of their place within it.

Activity Number and Title

1. What's a Forest to You?
3. Tough Choices
5. Balancing America's Forests
8. Take Action!

The Changing Forest: Forest Ecology
The activities in this module are designed to encourage students to explore and learn about forest ecosystems through hands-on discovery and experimentation. Their investigations will help them appreciate the diversity of life in forests, understand the interdependencies of such forest life, and develop an awareness of the importance of forests in our daily lives.

Activity Number and Title

1. Adopt-a-Forest
2. Cast of Thousands
7. Understanding Fire
8. Fire Management

Exploring Environmental Issues: Municipal Solid Waste
This module helps youth explore the important and current topic of managing our municipal solid waste (MSW). Both the challenges and solutions of this rather complex subject are addressed, thereby providing students with a fuller understanding of the factors that affect the management of our waste.

Activity Number and Title

1. Introduction to Municipal Solid Waste: The Waste Stream
2. Source Reduction
3. Recycling and Economics
4. Composting
8. Take Action: Success Stories and Personal Choices

Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk
This module provides formal and nonformal educators with a series of activities to help students learn the rationale for and the mechanics of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. The module's activities provide students with a framework through which they can apply scientific processes and higher order thinking skills to environmental issues. By learning the basics of risk, students will be able to apply their knowledge and skills to environmental issues, public policy issues, and personal decisions.

Activity Number and Title

2. Things Aren't Always What They Seem
5. Communicating Risk
7. Decision Making: Ecological Risks, Wildfires, and Natural Hazards
8. Taking Action: Reducing Risk in Your School or Community

Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live
This module provides educators with a useful tool for place-based education to help create a bond between young citizens and their communities. Students explore current and future community environmental issues, enabling them to make informed decisions about those issues.

Activity Number and Title

2. Community Character
5. Green Space
6. A Vision for the Future

Global Connections: Forests of the World
This module provides formal and nonformal educators with a series of activities to help students and educators gain an increased understanding and appreciation of the diversity of world forest environments, with an emphasis on the human interaction with and dependence on those environments. The activities provide students with opportunities to apply scientific processes and higher order thinking skills while investigating world forestry issues and conducting service learning action projects.

Activity Number and Title

3. Mapping the World's Forests
8. Making Consumer Choices