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.
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 is a downloadable resource for educators of students in grades K-2 that uses sensory exploration to understand objects, spaces, people and interactions.
Students select individual trees to observe over time, deepening their awareness of tree changes and developing a greater appreciation for their local environment.
In this activity, children explore the many products and benefits that trees provide.
In this activity, children explore how their community—and the trees within it—provide things people need.
In this activity, children discover how plants and animals depend on trees.
In this activity, children make a tree costume and explore the parts of a tree.
In this activity, children compare trees and identify distinguishing features.