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 Project Learning Tree
Last updated: 06/19/2008
WORKSHOPS in IDAHO ..............................
Project Learning Tree Workshops:
- June 5-6, 2008, Idaho Falls, (PLT Wildfires & Weeds) - Registration Form - Event Flyer
- June 12-13, 2008, Boise, (Focus on Literature with WILD, WET & PLT) - Registration Form
- June 16-17, 2008, Genesee, (PLT Focus on Communities) - Registration Form - Event Flyer
- June 18-19, 2008, Boise, (PLT Hot Topics / for teachers of grades 9-12) - Registration Form - Event Flyer
- July 9-10, 2008, Bonners Ferry, (PLT Wildfires & Weeds) - Registration Form - Event Flyer
- July 23-24, 2008, Orofino, (PLT Wildfires & Weeds) - Registration Form - Event Flyer
- July 30-31, 2008, Boise, (PLT Wildfires & Weeds) - Registration Form - Event Flyer
- Sept 26-27, 2008, Boise/Idaho City, (PLT Walk in the Forest)
- Oct 17-18, 2008, Boise, (General Project Learning Tree)
- Nov 7-8, 2008, Coeur d'Alene, (Focus on Literature with WILD, WET & PLT)
- Nov 14-15, 2008, Boise, (PLT Focus on Communities)
- Feb 20-21, 2009, Boise, (PLT Natural Resources & Solid Waste)
- Apr 3-4, 2009, (General Project Learning Tree)
(Note: More workshops may have been scheduled since this posting. Check back soon!)
Workshop Descriptions:
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All PLT workshops have great activities that help you accomplish
curricular goals in meaningful ways, and are offered for professional education credit. Special topic workshops focus on specific topics. There is no prerequisite for these workshops. You'll want to take them all!
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General PLT workshops focus on trees, forests and fire ecology, and on using PLT environmental education activities to accomplish a variety of curricular goals. See PLT in action.
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Focus on Communities workshops (NEW!). In this new workshop, we’ll explore the places we live--past, present and future. We’ll do activities from the new & improved PLT PreK-8th Activity Guide, and also premiere the newest PLT high school module, "The Places We Live."
Join us to learn more about your community by investigating its history, to look at changes over time, and to consider its future.
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Natural Resources and Solid Waste workshops focus on where stuff comes from, where it ends up, and what happens to it inbetween. Topics: Renewable and nonrenewable resources, recycling, compost, landfills, energy and more. See PLT in action.
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Wildfires and Weeds workshops focus on wildfires and invasive species--two of the hottest environmental issues. See PLT in action.
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Walk in the Forest combines a PLT workshop with a forest tour for teachers. Friday we're classroom-based, and Saturday we head out to explore local forests. Co-sponsored by the Society of American Foresters. See PLT in action.
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Focus on Literature with WILD, WET and Learning Tree workshops incorporate elementary children's literature with activities from Project's WILD, WET and Learning Tree. See PLT in action.
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Contact our office for registration information. (208)334-4061 |
What will you do at a PLT Workshop?:
- Participate in hands on (and minds on!) PLT activities, both indoors and out.
- Expand your knowledge of trees, forest ecology, and the total environment.
- Enhance your teaching skills.
- Plan ways to use PLT activities to accomplish existing curricular goals and meet state education standards.
- Join the growing community of educators who believe in PLT's approach to education.
- Receive PLT materials (PreK-8 Activity Guide or a variety of Secondary Modules) free of charge.
- Earn university credit (optional).
- Be subscribed to EarthTracks, Idaho's environmental education newsletter.
For more information call: 208-334-4061 or email plt@idahoforests.org
READ with ..............................
Click here for our annotated list of Suggested Children's Literature for each of the 96 activities in the PLT PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide (PDF format, 800kb in size).
(You receive the Activity Guide by attending a PLT workshop.)
ABOUT ..............................
is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, and their responsibility for it.
Project Learning Tree continues to set the standard for environmental education excellence at the elementary, middle and secondary levels. PLT increases students' understanding of our complex environment. PLT is designed to teach students how to think, not what to think about environmental issues.
Crafted to meet state and national standards, PLT provides all the tools educators need to bring the environment into their classrooms–and their students into the environment. Whether it's the natural or built environment, over 200,000 educators already turn to PLT to teach about topics from forests, wildlife and water, to community planning, waste management and energy.
Click to access Project Learning Tree's national homepage.
THE CURRICULUM ..............................
's mission is to increase students' understanding of our environment; stimulate students' critical and creative thinking; develop students' ability to make informed decisions on environmental issues; and instill in students the commitment to take responsible action on behalf of the environment.
's goals are to develop students' awareness, appreciation, understanding, skills, and commitment to address environmental issues; to provide a framework for students to apply scientific processes and higher order thinking skills to resolve environmental problems; to increase appreciation and tolerance of diverse viewpoints on environmental issues; to stimulate creativity, originality, and flexibility to resolve environmental problems and issues; and to encourage students to become responsible, productive, and participatory members of society.
offers exciting and challenging interdisciplinary, action-oriented activities that focus on the total environment -- land, air and water. PLT's lessons are designed to develop critical thinking skills and teach students "how" to think about complex environmental issues, not "what" to think.
provides ready-made lessons and activities that can be incorporated into busy classrooms, nature centers, museums, and scout troops. The activities require minimal preparation and little, if any, equipment.
activities guide the learner through a process that begins with awareness, moves them towards knowledge, enables them to challenge preconceived ideas, and motivates them to seek constructive avenues for environmental action.
All activities center around five major themes from the PLT Conceptual Framework. These themes are integrated into both the PreK-8 curriculum and the secondary curriculum.
Activities within the Diversity theme illustrate a wide array of habitats, societies, technologies, and cultures.
The theme Interrelationships includes activities that highlight ecological, technological, and social-cultural systems as interactive and interdependent.
The theme Systems, encompasses activities that show the connection between environmental, technological, and social systems.
Structure and Scale activities demonstrate how technologies, societal institutions, and components of natural and human-built environments vary.
The theme, Patterns of Change, explores the change of structures and systems over time.
THE PreK-12 CURRICULUM IS:
- Based on the real needs of educators.
- Developed, reviewed, and tested by more than 400 educators and resource professionals.
- Formally evaluated by the North American Association for Environmental Education's Commission on Environmental Education Research.
- Classroom proven.
and EDUCATION STANDARDS ..............................
Project Learning Tree activities help teachers and students meet education standards.
Curriculum Correlations to National and State Standards http://www.plt.org/curriculum/correlations.cfm
Idaho's Achievement standards http://www.idahoboardofed.org/saa/index.asp
Correlations between PLT activities and Idaho's achievement standards are in development. Check back for the completed correlations in the Fall of 2002.
Link to Branch newsletter: http://www.plt.org/newsletter/current.cfm
Materials and more!
 
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