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What do YOU think President Obama should do to reconnect people with America’s Great Outdoors? Through his America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, President Obama is asking people to share ideas online and through a series of listening sessions around the country to promote community conservation efforts and reconnect people with the outdoors. Find out how you can join the conversation. more >> 2011 is International Year of Forests Use our specially designed PLT Activity 20 “Environmental Exchange Box” (available online) with grades K-8, to help students learn more about their local forests, forests across the country, and forests around the globe.
Evaluating PLT’s Technology Connections Summary: Please consider participating in a national online study to evaluate PLT’s technology connections in its curriculum materials. The survey will be sent on August 10, and should take less than 20 minutes to complete. more >> PLT’s GreenSchools! Program Provides a Blueprint for Green Learning Across the country, elementary, middle, and high school students are forming “green teams” to investigate and reduce their school’s environmental footprint—and save their school money! Register at www.pltgreenschools.org to receive free access to a set of investigations and discover the steps to becoming a recognized PLT GreenSchool!more >> Biotechnology: Project Learning Tree’s New Secondary Program Available online at http://connect.plt.org, new PLT activities and case studies explore biotechnology from an environmental and societal perspective. more >> Announcing PLT’s New Online Community for Educators Connect with fellow educators and PLT workshop facilitators online for discussions, tips, ideas, and resources to improve your teaching using PLT. Plus get free access to PLT online lesson plans! more >> More than 100 Congressional Co-Sponsors for No Child Left Inside! PLT/AFF is urging the House and Senate education committees to incorporate NCLI into the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. more >> Project Learning Tree attends White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors The conference marked the kickoff of the Great Outdoors Initiative—a new effort to promote community conservation efforts and reconnect people with the outdoors. more >> GreenWorks! Service Learning Grants: Professional Women Basketball Players team with PLT to help Elementary Students Plant a School Garden You don’t have to be big, to make a big difference, but being tall can help! more >> High Schoolers Use Technology to Teach Elementary Students About Nature High school students work together to teach 3rd graders about Arkansas’ unique bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem. more >> Model PLT GreenSchools! Read about four PLT GreenSchools! across the country where students are leading the way to improve their school environment, save their school money, and teach others best practices. more >> GreenWorks! Pollinator Garden Grants Available PLT is providing grants of up to $500 in conjunction with PollinatorLIVE, a free distance learning adventure featuring live interactive webcasts, web seminars, and satellite field trips for your classroom about pollinators, gardening, and conservation. The first PollinatorLIVE webcast will transmit from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. on May 12. more >> Tips for Setting Up a Community Garden Two parents organize middle schoolers to grow organic vegetables for use in the school cafeteria. more >> Growing a New Forest A GreenWorks! grant engages youth with their community in a reforestation project in Oregon. more >> Educator Tips: Lab Coats Paint a Thousand Words Create your own painted lab coats! These powerful visual tools engage students in learning about science and the environment. more >> PLT Teaches Life Skills Not only are PLT activities great for teaching science concepts, they are excellent tools to teach life skills.
Showing Off Biotechnology in the Classroom My students loved the DNA extraction! more >> EE Resources: Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation Grants Earth Science Week Contests Photography Contest, "We Depend on Energy" Visual Arts Contest, "Energy on Earth" Essay Contest, "How Energy Powers the Planet" Angela Award PollinatorLIVE: GreenWorks! Grants and Ecoregional Pollinator Guides Audubon International Hosts Free Webinars 360 Education Solutions – Professional Development Courses How Green is My Town? GeoPlatform Dead Planet, Living Planet Trash to Treasure Competition US EPA Wastes Website Plant for the Planet Video Weather Wiz more >>Dollar General’s Back-to-School Grants Toyota International Teacher Program NSTA New Science Teacher Academy Fellowships National EE Week Photo Blog Contest All the Way to the Ocean – Children’s Book Bryce Canyon Electronic Field Trip American Bird Conservancy Video: Go Birding, Save Species! Bay Backpack’s “Why Teach About Wetlands” Blog |
