Career Education

Nature of Fire

Nature of Fire features three PLT activities for educators of students in grades 6-8 about sustainable forest management and strategies to reduce catastrophic wildfire, ensure resilient forests, maintain forests, and restore degraded lands.

Discover Your Urban Forest

Encourage learners to investigate environmental issues that affect their urban community. By inspiring youth to learn about the place they live, these activities help students better understand how the world works and what sustains them.

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Carbon & Climate

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.

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Energy in Ecosystems

For grades 3-5. Students focus on forests (one of the largest and most complex types of ecosystems) and come to understand some of the interactions present in all ecosystems.

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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.

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Learn About Forests: Living with Fire

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading outreach events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners explore the role of fire in ecosystems and conduct a wildfire safety inspection of the site.

Learn About Forests: Make Your Own Paper

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners experience the magic of the paper-making process and the value of trees as a natural resource.

Learn About Forests: Nature’s Skyscrapers

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Using simple tools, learners calculate the height of a tree and find out why foresters measure trees.

Learn About Forests: Plant a Tree

This Learn About Forest activity is perfect for forest sector professionals leading educational events, career days, or field visits with youth. Learners identify benefits we receive from trees and participate in a tree-planting event.