Project Learning Tree® (PLT) is the multi-disciplinary environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation. Designed for students in grades PreK-12, PLT continues to set the standard for environmental education excellence. PLT increases students' understanding of our complex environment. PLT is designed to teach students how to think, not what to think about environmental issues.

Developed to meet state and national education standards, PLT provides 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 300,000 educators turn to PLT to provide them with strategies and techniques to teach about forests, wildlife, water, community planning, waste management, and energy.

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PLT for PreK-8 From Awareness, to Understanding, to Responsible Action	Energy & SocietyTM Energy Education for the 21st Century	Service-Learning Through the GreenWorks! initiative

ALSO: PLT for 9-12

Each module challenges students to explore the many facets of an issue - illustrating the complexity of real life environmental decisions. Modules are multi-disciplinary and standards based, while incorporating key concepts from the social science and humanities, sciences and math.

Available Modules:

Forest Ecology Beginning in the forest, students learn about natural systems and relationships.	Municipal Solid Waste Students explore roots and solutions of this universal environmental issue.	Focus on Forests Students investigate and analyze environmental issues, learning how they unfold, mature and become part of the public debate.	Places We Live	Focus on Risk Students learn how to assess environmental and health issues, and about tools they can use to make informed decisions.

Modules in Development:

Exploring Environmental Issues in the Places We Live

As students explore their own backyards, they connect with their surroundings and develop an understanding of how to work as community members to protect the environmental, social, and economic integrity of the places we live.

Biodiversity

In partnership with the World Wildlife Fund, this module will use the theme of biodiversity as a window through which students investigate the environment.

Forests of the World

In partnership with the World Forestry Center, this module will explore the cultural, political, environmental, and economic aspects of the world's forests.