E-Summit 2021
Join us for PLT’s E-summit May 18th and 19th. We will explore opportunities in light of positive change; brainstorm pathways to advance equity and inclusivity …
Search Results for: stem strategies
PLT Releases New Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
Project Learning Tree has released a new curriculum guide to engage kindergarten through grade 8 students in exploring their environment. It includes 50 field-tested, hands-on activities that integrate investigations of nature with science, math, English language arts, and social studies using hands-on classroom studies and outdoor field investigations.
50 Activities in PLT’s K-8 Guide Explore Your Environment
Fifty multidisciplinary activities can be found inside PLT’s Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide, divided by grade band. Many activities also offer variations for doing …
Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
PLT’s new flagship curriculum includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment.
Innovative Ways to Create More Urban Green Spaces
Creating more green spaces can not only add natural beauty to cities, but it can also improve the health and well-being of its residents. Get your students inspired to add green spaces to urban areas.
New PLT Activity Collections: Biodiversity Blitz for Grade 3-5
Biodiversity Blitz is the third in a new series of theme-based PLT activity collections. It features three PLT activities for educators of students in grades 3-5 that invite learners to investigate the variety of species in an ecosystem, and how this variety – or biodiversity – helps sustain life on Earth.
New PLT Activity Collections: A Theme-Based Series for Educators
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.
Seeds Are Smart
The Jeffers Foundation, whose mission is to foster environmental stewardship through education, has created several instructional videos for children-at-home on various environmental topics. For example, …
Activities to Do With Children Outdoors
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.
11 Tips for Parents to Connect Kids to the Outdoors
Get kids interested and excited about nature in their own backyards or around their neighborhood with these 11 tips for parents to connect kids to nature.