What: Free Project Learning Tree Workshop When: Thursday September 23, 11:00am-2:00pm Where: Wedding Grove Pavilion at Camp Plymouth State Park Join Project Learning Tree (PLT) Facilitators for an in-depth workshop exploring the award-winning Prek-8th grade PLT guide. Learn skills to deliver hands-on outdoor educational activities aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. You will receive… [read more]
Announcing the Growing Works of Art Contest
Arbor Day is a day to plant, nurture and appreciate trees and the difference they make in our lives. To help us spread the word about Arbor Day, we invite Vermont students in grades 1-8 to participate in the celebration by creating a piece of tree art and sharing a tree story. The Growing Works… [read more]
Plan Your Fall Field Trip
Fall field trip opportunities are available at a state park near you. Supplement your preschool through grade twelve curriculum with a hands-on outdoor learning experience. This year field trips are available at more state parks than ever before: Jamaica State Park Mount Ascutney State Park Coolidge State Park Quechee State Park Gifford Woods State Park… [read more]
Join the Vermont PLT Steering Committee
Vermont PLT, an award-winning conservation education curriculum for students in pre-Kindergarten through grade twelve is getting a fresh start in Vermont. We want your help in creating a new plan for this important conservation education program. Our goal is to give Vermont students the knowledge and skills to become responsible, productive, and participatory members of society. We… [read more]
Stafford Tech Forestry Students in Action
The Forestry and Natural Resources Program (FNR) at Stafford Technical Center is well underway on the completion of a small-scale sugarhouse with the aid of the PLT grant from the American Forestry Foundation. Throughout the 2016-2017 school year, students worked to develop strategies for the completion of the project, and learned and implemented a range… [read more]
Experiencing Trees Through the Seasons with PLT
The Family Center of Washington County partners with Vermont PLT to offer high quality thematic professional development seasonally for early childhood professionals in the region. Late September brought a workshop based around autumn studies, Experiencing Trees through the Seasons. Over 35 home childcare providers, and early educators attended this two hour evening workshop. They experienced a… [read more]
PLT and Vermont Envirothon at YES!
Vermont Project Learning Tree exhibited with Vermont Envirothon at the Youth Environmental Summit (YES!) at the Barre Auditorium on Wednesday November 2. Middle and high school students from all over Vermont attended this environmental summit, participating and presenting workshops on environmental action in their schools and communities. YES! is hosted by UVM Extension. Keep an… [read more]
Online Project Learning Tree Workshops Now Available
Project Learning Tree’s awarding-winning, multi-disciplinary curriculum resources teach students how to think, not what to think. PLT develops critical thinking, problem solving, and effective decision-making skills. Independent evaluators confirm PLT increases students’ knowledge, reasoning, and academic skills. Join the 650,000 educators across the country who use PLT’s flexible materials to bring the environment into their… [read more]
Educator Workshops
Would you like to learn some new, fun outdoor and indoor activities to share with children? Request a Project Learning Tree workshop in your community. Workshops vary in length from two to fifteen hours and cover a wide range of topics. All curriculum materials are aligned to the new Common Core and Next Generation Science… [read more]
Outdoor Learning
Marilyn Thompson and Linda Burnett found success in teaching students at the Mountain School at Winhall outdoors after participating in a Project Learning Tree facilitator training at Seyon Lodge State Park in 2010. Since then they trained all their colleagues at the school in PLT and made the school grounds into an effective outdoor classroom.… [read more]