Bring PLT to your School

Through hands-on investigations and community action projects, PLT’s GreenSchools materials inspire students to take personal responsibility for improving their school environment, home, and community. Students, teachers, and school staff members receive the tools, training, and resources for student-led Green Teams to create healthier schools – and to save schools money!

 

Featured Activities to Green Your School

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Environmental Quality Investigation

Students investigate areas where improvements can be made in indoor air quality, transportation, chemical use, and more.
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School Site Investigation

Students assess their school grounds on the basis of various criteria. Using the data collected from the Investigation, students can develop action projects to improve the school site to make it a more sustainable, healthier, and safer environment.
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Waste & Recycling Investigation

Students investigate how much waste your school generates and where it goes, as well as recycling and composting efforts.
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Water Investigation

Students investigate and evaluate water use in their school and on school grounds and collect data on water conservation practices to develop a school action plan for conserving water.

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Benefits of PLT's GreenSchools

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Training for Educators

PLT’s GreenSchools program guides teachers, students, school administrators, parents, and community members to create a more green and healthy learning environment. Receive training locally by contacting your PLT State Coordinator.

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Healthier & Sustainable Schools

Students take action to conserve energy and water, reduce waste production, and improve the school’s environmental quality. These simple actions can result in significant savings on utility bills and more. Explore an example of what a green school might look like!

Experience a Green School
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Peer-to-Peer Collaboration & STEM

Hands-on investigations provide an opportunity for students to use their knowledge and STEM skills to address environmental challenges at their schools. Ready about PLT students green school’s journey, and from teachers with tips for implementing a green school project.

Tips to Green Your School

Tips, Tools, & Resources to Help You Green Your School

Check out our resources for free tools and tips, new lesson plans, and professional development from educators for green schools and teaching about the environment

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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