Experience the outdoors with your family and community with hands-on guided walks, activities, and lessons.
When children spend time outside, exploring in nature, it can improve their creativity and imagination, classroom performance, and academic achievement, as well as their overall physical and mental health. Exposure to trees and forests at an early age helps to build a solid foundation for a healthy lifestyle.
Free, Fun, and Easy-To-Do Activities
Walk in the Forest
Forests are home to many plants and animals—and provide places for people to play, learn, and work in green jobs.
Walk in the Forest
Just Outside Your Door
Discover nature right outside your door! Uncover nature’s diversity in your own backyard or around your home.
Just Outside Your Door
Around the Block
Tune into the sounds, sights, and changes in your community to explore nature in your neighborhood.
Find Guided Walks
Explore Local Parks
Visit a nearby nature area or park to take a closer look and get in touch with trees.
Explore Your Park
Bring the Outdoors In
On those days when you can’t get outside, discover how we all depend on forests and natural resources.
Bring Nature Inside
Green Your Home
Practice stewardship by doing something positive for the environment and green your home.
Be A StewardLatest Resources
Every month we carefully select new tools and resources that enhance PLT’s lessons. These include tips curated by teachers, STEM strategies, recommending reading, apps, videos, and more.
Resource
Increasing Bird Habitat in Forests
SFI and American Bird Conservancy joined forces to create a free booklet—Bird Friendly Forests: Opportunities for Private Forest Landowners in the Southern United States—that showcases ways landowners can manage their forests for bird habitat.
Educator Tips
A Tool for Your Science Toolbox: Natural Inquirer
Natural Inquirer is a free science education journal written for middle through high school age students. Learn more about the variety of PLT resources that have been correlated to Natural Inquirer articles.
Educator Tips
8 Differentiated Instruction Techniques to Reach Diverse Learners
Project Learning Tree encourages teachers to provide students with multiple options for taking in information, processing ideas, and expressing what they have learned — both in the classroom and outdoors. We include suggestions for differentiated ins
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