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🌻Don't let National Pollinator Week buzz by! There's still time to celebrate the tiny creatures with an outsized impact on our world. 🦋

Discover fun pollinator facts and try 6 simple activities to help protect the birds, bats, butterflies, bees, and other pollinators that support healthy forests, gardens, and ecosystems:
https://www.plt.org/educator-tips/5-hands-on-ways-to-celebrate-national-pollinator-week/

🌲Calling all Pennsylvania formal and non-formal educators!

Join Keystone Wood Products Association, BLaST IU 17, and the PA Bureau of Forestry for a FREE two-day professional development experiences that follows the journey from forest to finished product.

Explore sustainable forestry in action, tour wood products manufacturing facilities, meet professionals across the supply chain and discover how to use Project Learning Tree's Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers instructional material to introduce students to exciting green career pathways.

By attending, you'll receive:
✅15 hours toward Act 48
✅ Standards-aligned lessons
✅Hands-on learning experiences
✅Industry and manufacturing tours
✅Lunch provided

Whether you're a formal or non-formal educator, you'll leave with new connections, real-world insights, and practical tools to help students explore rewarding careers in forestry, conservation, and the forest products sector.

🗓️June 24-25, 2026
📍Tiadaghton State Forest Resource Management Center, Waterville, PA

🔗Register today! https://events.dcnr.pa.gov/event/two-day-teacher-workshop-from-forest-to-finished-product

Two-Day Teacher Workshop: From Forest to Finished Product Wednesday, June 24, 2026: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM - Tiadaghton Resource Management Center Thursday, June 25, 2026: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Guided Manufacturing and Forest Product Tours 15 Act 48 Hours - You must attend both days to receive hours. Cost: FREE Join the Keystone Wood Products Association, BLaST I...

🌻 They might be small, but their impact is HUGE! This National Pollinator Week, learn more about the ways that birds, bats, and bugs positively impact ecosystems!

Check out these fun facts plus 6 ways you can celebrate powerful pollinators.

https://www.plt.org/educator-tips/5-hands-on-ways-to-celebrate-national-pollinator-week/

Bring nature-based education to your school or district! 🌱

We’re here to support you every step of the way, from professional development training to integrating PLT’s instructional materials into your curriculum.

https://www.plt.org/schools

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!