Education Products and Resources
A LIFETIME OF LEARNING
Project Learning Tree (PLT) offers educational and training resources that advance environmental education, forest literacy, and green career pathways – nurturing the littlest of learners to the next generation of green leaders. Whether you are a formal educator, counselor, or young adult, there are learning opportunities designed for every age and stage.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ACTIVITY GUIDES
Our comprehensive activity guides feature many activities for learners ranging from preschool to 8th grade. Activities connect with learning standards in science, English language arts, math, and social studies, introduce students to inquiry-based learning, and provide opportunities to apply STEM in real-life.
Trees & Me: Activities for Exploring Nature with Young Children
Featuring fun, hands-on experiences to connect the littlest learners to nature, with a focus on trees. Activities are designed for families and caregivers, childcare providers, and early childhood or PreK-Grade 1 educators.
Age Range: 1 to 6
Product Type: Printed Guide, e-Book, Online Professional Development
Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
Filled with 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities, the Explore Your Environment guide helps connect children to nature and increase awareness and knowledge about the environment. Activities are designed to develop students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and present students with real-world opportunities to apply STEM.
Age Range: Grades K-8
Product Type: Printed Guide, e-Book, Online Professional Development
DIGITAL ACTIVITY COLLECTIONS
Get a taste of PLT with our activity collections! Each collection consists of three activities from the Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide, and can be used as individual stand-alone lessons, or as a cohesive unit of instruction.
Take students on an adventure to investigate trees – and learn about nature – while using their five senses. This activity collection features three flexible activities from the Explore Your Environment guide.
Age Range: Grades K-2
Product Type: Activities (Digital)
Connecting for Health and Planet
Investigate how being (and learning) outside—and among trees—benefits people physically, emotionally, and socially.
Age Range: Grades 3-5
Product Type: Activities (Digital)
Engage students in learning about why biodiversity is one of the most important indicators of an ecosystem’s health.
Age Range: Grades 3-5
Product Type: Activities (Digital)
With these hands-on activities, identify unique features of trees and learn how to best plan, plant, and care for trees in your community.
Age Range: Grades 3-5
Product Type: Activities (Digital)
Learn about the impacts of fire on ecosystems and how to prevent and manage wildland fires.
Age Range: Grades 6-8
Product Type: Activities (Digital)
Explore your urban environment and investigate environmental issues that may affect your community.
Age Range: Grades 6-8
Product Type: Activities (Digital)
GREEN CAREERS RESOURCES & TRAINING
PLT helps nurture the next generation of green leaders. Resources are resources designed for educators, counselors, employers, and young adults.
A Guide to Green Jobs in Canada: Voices of Indigenous Professionals
Hear inspiring stories from 12 First Nations and Inuit leaders working in the forest, conservation, and parks sectors across Canada. Learn about various green career paths and what it takes to pursue similar careers to the professionals featured in the guide.
Age Range: Grades 9-12, Young Adults
Product Type: Printed Guide, e-Book
Featuring profiles of over 20 Black professionals who share their journeys to green careers, along with 14 career factsheets, this guide introduces youth to the many jobs in the forest and conservation sector.
Age Range: Grades 5-12, Young Adults
Product Type: Printed Guide, e-Book
Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers
Help youth discover careers in sustainable forestry and conservation!
Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers includes four hands-on instructional activities to help youth research forestry jobs, and practice managing and monitoring forest resources.
Explore the forest and green careers with our free, online interactive game! Learn about sustainable forest management, biodiversity, and how communities rely on forests. Earn a Forest Fundamentals digital badge upon completion.
Age Range: Grades 9-12, Young Adults
Product Type: Online Game
Indigenous Rights and Relationship Building in the Forest Sector Online Courses
Developed in collaboration with Sault College, these online courses promote respectful relationship building and greater understanding, recognition, and respect for Indigenous Peoples’ rights, traditional knowledge, representative institutions, and distinctive relationships with the forest.
Age Range: Young Adults, Forest Sector Employees, Educators
Product Type: Online Course
