In this issue: PLT's Early Childhood program wins a Teachers' Choice award; Top Ten Tips for Teaching Outside; butterfly gardens come to life; and a K-12 school shares how PLT's GreenSchools! Investigtions benefit student learning, the environment, and the school's bottom line.
Use PLT and Differentiated Instruction to Reach Diverse Learners
By Jaclyn StallardIncorporate elements of these eight techniques into your educational programming to provide students with different learning styles and abilities multiple avenues to acquire and process content.
Read More >News & Updates
 | PLT’s Early Childhood Program Wins Teachers’ Choice AwardBy Vanessa Bullwinkle In response to a huge demand for more activities that use developmentally-appropriate approaches for reaching young learners, PLT created a new early childhood curriculum Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood that has been selected a 2011 Teachers’ ChoiceSM Award winner by Learning ® magazine.Read More > |
 | Educating CongressBy Melissa Moeller We often expect our elected officials to be experts on everything. However, many members of Congress, both new and old, may not understand what environmental education is, why it is important, and how it fits into traditional education settings. With a number of new faces in Congress next year, we have an opportunity to educate these newly elected officials about the value of environmental education. Read More > |
On the Ground
 | Butterfly Gardens Come to LifeBy Kyle Cooper Last year, 16 schools used PLT GreenWorks! grants to create gardens for monarch butterflies…and the results are amazing!Read More > |
 | Apply for a PLT GreenWorks! Grant to Help Students Create Pollinator GardensBy Vanessa Bullwinkle Deadline is December 3.Read More > |
 | As Trees Grow, We Grow!By Joy Barney In this PLT GreenWorks! project, 35 students from South Tahoe High School in California taught 1,700 younger students about trees; led tree planting efforts to restore a community and its forest following a wildfire; and presented their work to an international audience of 150 environmental educators.Read More > |
 | Lowcountry Prep: A GreenSchool Investigates, Then Takes ActionBy Paula Tarnapol Whitacre A K-12 school in South Carolina is using PLT’s GreenSchools! investigations to benefit student learning, the environment, and their school’s bottom line. Read More > |
Educator Tips
 | Top Ten Tips for Teaching OutsideBy Laura Duffey A preschool, an elementary, and a high school teacher offer their tips for overcoming barriers to teaching outside.Read More > |
Tools
 | EE Resources - Fall 2010By Jaclyn Stallard Activities, contests, games, awards, websites and videos.Read More > |
