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.

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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.

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Forests of the World

Global Connections: Forests of the World provides opportunities for high school teachers and students to gain an increased understanding of — and appreciation for — the diversity of global forests.

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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.

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GreenSchools Investigations

Learn about the benefits of becoming a GreenSchool and how to form a Green Team and obtain equipment. Get suggestions for how students might conduct the investigations and why, and tips for collecting data.

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PreK-8 Environmental Education

Charting Diversity. Birds and Worms. Pollution Search. These are some of the 96 hands-on interdisciplinary activities found in Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide.

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Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers

Help youth discover careers in sustainable forestry and conservation. The Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers unit includes four hands-on, NGSS-aligned, instructional activities to help youth research forestry jobs.