A Rising Senior Starts a GreenSchools Program
Learn how this student got her school principal to agree to starting a GreenSchools program, and what she is doing to motivate teachers and students.
Service Learning
GreenWorks! Grants Now Available
Do you want children to help improve the environment at your school or in your community? Apply for a GreenWorks! grant to support your project.
Students Galvanize Entire School Around Environmental Learning and Action
Tips for involving students in a green schools program from teachers at Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford, CT.
Environmental Education Workshops for Teachers Now Available Online
We now offer online courses for early childhood, K-8, and GreenSchools. The courses include demonstration videos, planning exercises, and state-specific resources.
PLT Celebrates Five Outstanding Educators for 2016
Helping kids learn from nature is all in a day’s work for Project Learning Tree’s 2016 National Outstanding Educators. Here’s how they do it.
Outstanding Educator
Karen Johnson Folsom
Karen Johnson Folsom is lead teacher at Nature’s Classroom Environmental Education Center in Florida, reaching 15,000 6th graders each year.
Outstanding Educator
Dave Shafer
Dave Shafer uses the outdoors to teach a range of STEM topics to students at Skiles Test Elementary School in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Outstanding Educator
Jennifer Hubbard-Sánchez
Jennifer Hubbard-Sánchez is the state specialist for sustainable programs and directs the center for environmental education at Kentucky State University in Frankfurt.
Outstanding Educator
Susan Snyder
Susan Snyder creates and leads programs for K-12 students in ecology and soil science at Ogden Nature Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Outstanding Educator
Anne Mannarino
Anne Mannarino directs Project SWIRL (Standards Within Real World Learning) at Regent University in Providence Forge, Virginia, which helps K-12 teachers of science.