Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning environmental education program designed for teachers and other educators working with students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The Project Learning Tree activity guides are correlated to Kentucky's Program of Studies and Core Content. To find PLT activity correlations, please click here.
PLT uses the forest as a "window" into natural and built environments, helping people gain an awareness and knowledge of the world around them and their place in it. It teaches students how to think, not what to think.
PLT is an interdisciplinary educational program that provides activities, workshops and in-service training opportunities for teachers, environmental educators and youth leaders.
PLT Workshops Are Fun!
Workshop attendees participating in the Birds and Worms activity.
Throughout the year, a network of trained facilitators offers four- and six-hour PLT workshops across Kentucky for only $20 per participant. When you attend one of these workshops, you will receive the training and activity guide you need to conduct PLT activities, and you will receive four or six hours of professional development credit.
Workshops for the pre-kindergarten through 8th grade are six hours filled with lots of fun activities and freebies for your environmental education program. The thematic conceptual framework of PLT includes:
Diversity
Interrelationships
Structure and Scale
Systems
Patterns of Change
High School Educators Workshops
High school (secondary) workshops last four hours and are also filled with many interesting hands-on, thought-provoking activities.
Five high school modules allow students to investigate environmental issues. They include:
Introductory Handbook for the Secondary Modules
Forest Ecology
Solid Waste Management
Risk Assessment
Focus on Forestry
Places We Live
What happens during a workshop?
Fun! You enjoy hands-on PLT activities, both indoor and outdoor. You also expand your knowledge of trees and forest ecology and plan ways to use PLT activities to accomplish your existing curricular goals. Kentucky classroom teachers are shown how to apply PLT activities to meet the Kentucky Education Cabinet's Program of Studies and core content requirements. Each activity outlines the appropriate grade levels, subjects, concepts, skills, objectives, materials needed and time considerations.
To schedule a workshop for your school or group (minimum of 12 participants), contact Jennifer Turner at 800-866-0555. For additional information, please visit the National PLT Web pages.
