Learn About Forests
Engage middle school aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and sustainable forest management with PLT’s ready-to-use, hands-on activities. Click the “View Family Activity” …
Engage middle school aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and sustainable forest management with PLT’s ready-to-use, hands-on activities. Click the “View Family Activity” …
Learn how to adapt our “Sounds Around” student activity for remote instruction, allowing students to tune in to the everyday sounds of nature from home or a nearby outdoor space.
I’m excited by my new role at PLT where I can channel my passion for community sustainability and urban forestry into my day-to-day work. PLT’s Discover Your Urban Forest activity collection for middle school teachers is a great example of the kind of PLT resources to engage youth who will be leading voices on sustainability challenges like climate change in the years to come.
The trees in our communities provide many benefits: they improve air quality, store carbon, and conserve energy. Trees also enhance human health by reducing blood …
Decisions about community land use are complex and often involve many people in many ways. In this activity, students use trees as a backdrop to …
Discover Your Urban Forest is the first in a new series of theme-based PLT activity collections. It features three brand new PLT activities for educators of students in grades 6-8 that invite learners to explore their urban environment and investigate environmental issues that affect their urban community.
In this free short simulation created by PLT, students pretend to be trees as they compete for essential resources. This simulation explores the underlying concepts …
Help Project Learning Tree support a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) initiative to build the case for renewed investment in forest education globally by taking a 15-minute survey.
Spending time outside is one way we can boost our resiliency while quarantining at home to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Bookmark a few of these free PLT family activities to try in your backyard, at a local park or trail, or another nearby safe space outdoors.
Looking for some great summer reading choices? Encourage the children you teach to curl up with one of these riveting reads featuring BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) protagonists to learn about the natural world.