This year the fifth grade class of Dummerston School immersed themselves in learning about the natural area on local Prospect Hill. They wrote poems, did research and created a wonderful new trail guide. Lindsay Glabach Royce was the teacher and Lynn Levine was the project coordinator and trail guide designer for the Dummerston Conservation Commission. The… [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]
Service Learning with Invasives Workshop
NorthWoods Stewardship Center in East Charleston hosted a Service Learning with Invasives and Project Learning Tree workshop. Middle and high school teachers explored ways to facilitate authentic service learning projects with students using Green Teacher and Project Learning Tree high school modules. This seven hour workshop included hands on invasive plant mitigation practice and exploring… [read more]
Northfield Green Team at YES
Northfield Middle School Green team students shared their success at the Youth Environmental Summit November 5, 2015 at Barre Auditorium with other middle and high school students from around Vermont. Under the leadership of Guidance Counselor Jerry Cassels, these students applied for and received a GreenWorks grant from National Project Learning Tree. This grant funded… [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]
Natural World Wednesdays
A group of five year olds gather sticks in the woods in one of Burlington’s City Forests, together they are building shelters. While other children across the city are playing video games, these children are experiencing Natural World Wednesdays with Yvette Mason, Recreation Specialist with Burlington Parks and Recreation. Yvette participated in a Project Learning… [read more]
How does the forest change over time?
A class of third and fourth graders walks along a forested path, round a corner and find a mysterious cement wall appearing out of large clumps of ferns and honeysuckle. Where did this come from? What story does it tell us about the people who once lived here? This group of students is exploring the… [read more]