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Trees & Me: Activities for Exploring Nature with Young Children

Trees & Me has hundreds of ideas for fun outdoor and indoor activities to connect children to nature, trees, and forests. Children explore nature through their senses, experience trees throughout all four seasons, and connect with their community.

Activity Guide
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Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood

Bring nature into the classroom and safely take young learners outdoors, whether you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community. Encourages children ages 3 to 6 to explore, discover and communicate in expressive ways with over 130 experiences.

Unit
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Treemendous Science!

For grades K-2. In this E-Unit students explore and collect tree data to develop an understanding of how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecosystems, and the ways in which trees and humans interact.
Activity Guide
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Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide

Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide offers educators a wide variety of engaging, hands-on activities, organized into grade bands, K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 about trees and forests, wildlife, water, climate change, stewardship, and more.

Sample activity

Through fun, indoor and outdoor activities, toddlers and preschoolers explore nature through their senses, experience trees throughout the seasons, and connect with their community.

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Nature and Young Children

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Learn about trees and nature

Young children are naturally drawn to trees. Trees are kid-friendly to explore, interesting to learn about, and found around the world. The experiences in Trees & Me use trees and forests as windows on the world to increase children’s understanding and appreciation of our complex environment.

Exploration through your senses and the seasons

PLT experiences offer opportunities for children to explore nature through guided theme-based experiences, outdoor play, art, movement, and music. Topics include hands-on exploration through the senses and seasons for ages 1-6.

Growing in nature

Research shows that early exposure to nature improves emotional and physical well-being, enhances learning, promotes positive social behavior. PLT experiences are an invitation to increase the quantity and quality of nature experiences with the children in your care.

Build Skills in Teaching Outdoors

Enhance your teaching skills, deepen your content knowledge, and become comfortable teaching outdoors in any setting, with PLT’s hands-on professional development.

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