New Releases and Free Resources: PLT Year in Review
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Native American Heritage Month, Thanksgiving, and Year-Round Resources for Educators
November is Native American, or American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. While we should honor, recognize, and celebrate Indigenous Peoples year-round, November is a month to dedicate more time to our individual and respective learning journeys about Indigenous Peoples’ history, culture, knowledge, perspectives, and leadership.
New PLT Activity Collections: Nature of Fire for Grades 6-8
Nature of Fire is the next installment in a series of theme-based PLT Activity Collections. It features three PLT activities for educators of students in grades 6-8 that invite learners to investigate wildfire and ecosystem change.
Forest Literacy Framework: Another Tool to Connect with Trees
PLT’s new Forest Literacy Framework translates the complex language of forests, trees, and sustainable forest management into concepts that everyone should know by the time they graduate from high school.
Podcast: Keys to Being Firewise
“Keys to Being Firewise®.” Trees Are Key, Episode 28. In this 12-minute podcast, a guest speaker from Firewise.org talks about how to maintain defensible space …
PLT’s Top 8 Socially-Distanced Activities
We’ve assembled a list of our top eight Project Learning Tree activities perfect for social distancing kids in Kindergarten through Grade 8.
[Archive] PLT’S FOREST LITERACY FRAMEWORK
A Guide to Teaching and Learning About Forests PLT’s Forest Literacy Framework translates the complex language of forests, trees, forest practices, and sustainable forest …
EVEN-AGED STAND
a forest area in which all the trees are the same age due to simultaneous planting or harvesting or having originated following a major disturbance …
Earth Day 2021 – Restore the Earth With Native Plants
The theme of Earth Day 2021 is “Restore Our Earth.” Explore the differences between native, non-native, and invasive plants; how invasive plants threaten the environment and why native plants sustain it — and what your classroom can do to get involved.
Activity: Living with Fire
Learners explore the burnability of different fuels and the role of fire in ecosystems.