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.
For educators of students in grades 3-5, Connecting for Health and Planet invites learners to investigate how being outside—and among trees, specifically—provides people with many different physical, emotional, social, and learning benefits.
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.
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.
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.
Students model what happens to renewable and nonrenewable resources over time and discover why sustainable use of natural resources is so important.
Our nation’s forests are managed to support different outcomes. Students learn how forests can be managed to meet human and environmental needs and examine national parks to identify challenges that forest managers face meeting different needs.
Students model processes that can lead to species becoming rare or endangered. Then, they become advocates for rare or at-risk species of plants or animals and create “public relations campaigns” on behalf of these species.
Every living thing has a habitat—a place that meets its needs. Human beings’ habitat is the community in which they live.
By reading a story such as The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, students can examine the importance of conserving natural resources.