American Forest

The core of Project Learning Tree’s environmental education is teaching students how to think. The activity guide has 96 lessons broken down to lesson objectives, appropriate grade levels, subject and concepts. The activities fall into the following categories: diversity, interrelationships, systems, structure & scale or patterns of change. These lessons can be modified to fit your classroom and learning needs of your students. There are lots of ideas, resources, curriculum, & references in less than five-hundred pages. Nature as a teaching tool is one of my favorite themes with these activities… (mere)

The Project Learning Tree activity is a great teacher resource guide. It has almost 100 lesson plan activities that teacher can use for their students to learn about trees. The lessons are divided up in 5 different sections to help you to find the lessons you want. They are also color-coated by each section. The five sections are diversity, interrelationships, systems, structure and scale, and patterns of change. Each lesson lists the objectives of the lesson and on the left-hand side, it lists the levels, concepts, subjects, and skills the lesson presents and also says what materials will be needed and the time it might take to teach the lesson. The lesson is well descriptive and easy for the teacher to use when teaching. It has reading connections the teachers can use to relate reading into the lesson. At the end of the lesson, there are the activity pages the teacher will copy off for the students to use during the lesson.… (mere)