Better Together: Mutualistic Relationships Between Plants and Insects
Plants help protect insects, and insects help plants pollinate and disperse seeds. Learn about some specialized symbiotic relationships that benefit both organisms involved.
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What’s Growing in Your Garden?
Project Learning Tree schools share lessons teachers learned after starting a class garden.
Most Unwanted: Invasive Insects in U.S. Forests
An invasive species is any kind of organism that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm to the environment, economy and possibly even human health. Lymantria dispar, Asian longhorned beetles, emerald ash borers, and woolly adelgids are among the growing list of invasive insects that threaten U.S. forests and urban landscapes.
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.
See You on the Trail that Students Built!
With PLT GreenWorks! grants, students in Alabama, Indiana and Michigan took the lead to restore, design and build nature trails, learning about ecosystems and forest health.
How Students Can Help Reduce Single-Use Plastic to Protect the Environment
Thirty-two percent of the plastics produced each year flow into our oceans. Here are a few ways you can encourage your students to reflect on how much plastic they use and how they can reduce their plastic consumption to protect the environment.
10 Hands-On Science Projects to Teach About Pollution
These experiments, games, and activities can help students in grades K-8 learn about the effect pollution has on the environment and inspire us to make a change.
4 Ways to Celebrate Pi Day in Nature
Celebrate mathematics and all that is Pi using these nature-based and STEM-focused activities.
Animals that live in trees (and how they’ve adapted to survive)
Sloths, koalas, geckos, and opossums have found unique ways to live in tree-tops. Find out how these animals have adapted to life in the tree canopy.
14 Winter-Themed Experiments and Activities for Any Climate
Embrace the cold this winter and have some fun with these hands-on science experiments and activities.