Project Learning Tree is an award-winning environmental education program designed for teachers and other educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12.

Project Learning Tree is committed to advancing environmental education, forest literacy, and green career pathways, using trees and forests as windows on the world.

PLT’s new flagship curriculum includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment.

Project Learning Tree, Project WET, and Project WILD have updated our easy-reference resource that lists activities from each of our programs to help teach about climate science and the impacts of …

These simple videos of PLT activities in action, mostly created using smartphones, assist educators with activity ideas for remote teaching, summer camps with virtual programming, and parents with …

Investigate how animals living in our backyards or schoolyards get what they need to survive and explore habitats nearby. These enrichments for a PLT activity, Backyard Safari, model the practices …

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Educators can download free sample Project Learning Tree activities for early childhood through high school students.

Attend a Training IN PERSON More than 1,200 workshops are held across the country every year. They are organized locally by PLT’s state programs and led by trained PLT facilitators.

PLT offers online and in-person workshops tailored for specific grade levels, academic standards, environmental topics, and formal and nonformal teaching situations.