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This World Environment Day focuses on the climate crisis and sustainable, green solutions such as sustainable forest management.

In The Global Climate / El Clima Global activity from PLT’s Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide / Explora tu Ambiente: Guía de Actividades K-8, students examine trends in carbon dioxide levels over time and its impact on ecosystems. In groups, they’ll identify potential ways to reduce the effects.

Encourage your learners to get creative while they reduce their carbon footprint!

Did you know there are more than 1,500 endangered or threatened plant and animal species across the U.S.? On Endangered Species Day, encourage your students to collaborate on a research project and advocate on behalf of a plant or animal on the brink of extinction.

In PLT’s Life on the Edge / La Vida al Límite activity from the Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide / Explora tu Ambiente: Guía de Actividades K-8, students model processes that can lead to species becoming rare or endangered and use their creativity to develop an advocacy and awareness campaign.

For younger learners, check out these endangered species art project ideas!

21 Endangered Species Art Project Ideas for Elementary Kids - Project Learning Tree There are tens of thousands of known threatened species. It’s critical to teach our children about endangered species because if we don’t know about the problem, we can’t take steps to find solutions.

For 50 years, PLT has helped learners understand the world around them wherever they grow. From city streets to schoolyards, urban forests play an important role in our daily lives.

Through PLT resources like Trillions of Trees invites learners to explore how to plan, plant, and care for trees in their community. This can help prime young minds to connect lessons learned to real-world sustainability work like applying the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard in areas where people live, work, and connect with nature.

🌲Learn more about SFI Urban and Community Forest Sustainability Standard: https://forests.org/sfi-urban-forestry-standard/
🌲Learn more about PLT’s Trillions of Trees activities:

New PLT Activity Collections: Trillions of Trees for Grades 3-5 - Project Learning Tree Trillions of Trees features three PLT activities for educators of grades 3-5 to investigate the unique characteristics of different trees.