Learning Is In Our Nature

Activities and resources to engage children in learning about the environment through the lens of trees and forests.

Resources to Learn About Nature

Explore nature with your friends, family, and community. When children spend time outside it can improve their creativity and imagination, classroom performance, and health.

Boy exploring nature and counting annual growth tree rings on a big log in nature. He is pensive and worried

Forest Literacy

PLT’s Forest Literacy Framework translates the language of forests and sustainable forest management into concepts for any age. It’s perfect for teachers and forestry professionals seeking guidance on how to connect youth to forests.

PLT’s Professional Development Model

PLT understands that not all professional development programs adhere to the same high standards. We design and deliver the highest-quality professional learning experiences, focused on outcomes and improving student achievement.

Teach, learn, and grow naturally

Why it matters

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.

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.

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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