PLT’s New Online Units for Grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8
Designed to be easy for teachers to access and use, these self-contained units of instruction are fully online.
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Earth Day activities to inspire your students and make a difference
Earth Day is about raising awareness about the importance of protecting our planet and taking action. Use these activities to inspire your students to take action this Earth Day, and every day.
Students Blend Art with Science in Community Garden
Children selected an animal found in their community’s garden to research. They created beautiful mosaics of their chosen animal for a permanent outdoor art exhibit.
The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story
The word “yoga” derives from a Sanskrit word “yuj,” meaning “to unite or integrate.” This book embodies Sanskrit’s yuj and can be used to integrate multiple discipline areas.
What’s a Tree Done for You Lately?
Products from trees are all around us. Some items are easy to recognize as products we get from trees – lumber, plywood, and paper, for …
Treemendous Science!
For K-2 teachers, Treemendous Science! helps young children explore, experience, and collect data to understand how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecological systems, and how humans and trees interact.
Five Educators Named 2017 National Project Learning Tree Outstanding Educators
PLT celebrates five outstanding educators who use environmental education to provide children and adults with skills to meet 21st century needs.
Outstanding Educator
Debbie Fluegel
Through the nonprofit group Trees Forever, Debbie works with communities, landowners, and farmers to conduct hands-on planting projects to diversify and enhance community forests …
11 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Lesson Ideas for Every Subject
Give “reduce, reuse, recycle” a whole new meaning by incorporating this concept into many subject areas. Many of these hands-on project ideas can be adapted for any grade.
Energy in Ecosystems
For 3rd-5th grade teachers, Energy in Ecosystems uses the forest as a lens to help students explore and understand the interactions and energy flows present in all ecosystems.