Learning by Giving Back
We’ve compiled various activities and resources you can do and share with your learners to inspire them to make a difference.
PreK-8 Activity 70 – Soil Stories
9 Edible Recipes to Introduce Students to Soil
Creating an edible soil activity featuring the different layers of soil—organic layer, topsoil, subsoil, parent material, and bedrock—is a fun way to engage participants in learning about the structure of soil and how it supports plant life.
How to Start a Classroom Garden With Minimal Resources
Spring has sprung, which means now is the perfect time to start a classroom garden! Learn how to get your garden growing with minimal resources while engaging students with hands-on learning.
Winter Break Family Outdoor Advent-ure Calendar
With winter break just around the corner, we’ve compiled a list of fun outdoor activities to keep everyone entertained. Unravel two weeks’ worth of advent-ures from nature-based gifts to identifying animal tracks!
Soil Erosion: Why It Happens and What We Can Do About It
Soil is unbelievably important for forests and all of life on earth. Help youth understand the negative effects of erosion and encourage soil development with our article and student activity ideas.
What’s Growing in Your Garden?
Project Learning Tree schools share lessons teachers learned after starting a class garden.
Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Bats
Four teachers share their experiences from students’ GreenWorks! projects to help pollinators with native plant gardens, a bee keeping operation, and constructing bat houses.
Develop Youth’s Life Skills with PLT and 4-H
This crosswalk quickly shows which PLT activities support youth development goals and 4-H Life Skills that are organized around the Head, Heart, Hands, and Health.
Hands-On Activities to Explore the Many Uses of Trees
Learning about trees is a great introduction to many subject areas – from science to music to geography. Here are some outdoor lesson ideas for students in any grade.
Family Activity: Soil Stories
Explore differences in soil types and composition.