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.
Students investigate areas where improvements can be made in indoor air quality, transportation, chemical use, and more.
Students investigate how much energy their school uses, the main sources of that energy, and ways to implement energy-saving strategies.
Engage middle school-aged youth in learning about trees, forests, and sustainable forest management with these free ready-to-use activities to engage youth in learning about sustainable forest management.
Students investigate how much waste your school generates and where it goes, as well as recycling and composting efforts.
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.
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.
Designed for 6th-8th grade teachers, the fully online Carbon & Climate E-Unit provides activities and resources to introduce students to some of the complex issues involved in climate change.
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.
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.