Benefits of Trees

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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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Together for Birds

Together for Birds invites students to investigate ways that birds and other living things depend on their habitat to live. It is designed for educators of students in grades K-2, with variations for grades 3-5.

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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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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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Treemendous Science!

For grades K-2. In this E-Unit students explore and collect tree data to develop an understanding of how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecosystems, and the ways in which trees and humans interact.

Sensational Trees

Sensational Trees is a downloadable resource for educators of students in grades K-2 that uses sensory exploration to understand objects, spaces, people and interactions.

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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.