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Focus on NH Forests with Project Learning Tree

Friday, July 13 2012, 8:30am - 2:30pm

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Focus on NH Forests with Project Learning Tree

for Grade K – 8 Educators and Non-formal Educators

Using the Forest as a Window on the World

Project Learning Tree uses trees, schoolyards and the local environment to introduce key environmental concepts to students. This workshop will introduce educators to PLT’s award-winning curriculum materials. Project Learning Tree uses trees and the local environment to introduce key environmental concepts to students. PLT activities are designed to help students learn to think critically and creatively about their relationship to the natural world. They are noted for teaching students how to think about the environment, not what to think. PLT activities are interdisciplinary and meet state standards in the four curriculum frameworks.

At the workshop, you will receive the following:

    Project Learning Tree’s award-winning PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide, with 96 activities, authentic assessment tools, and classroom resources

    Focus on New Hampshire Forests, a supplement to the PreK-8 Activity Guide with information specific to the trees and forests of our state
    A Teacher’s Guide to the Forests of New Hampshire, a series of factsheets about our forests
    A Handout Connecting PLT Activities to the NH Curriculum Frameworks

·         Staff development credit

    Great posters, and more!

Where: The Conservation Center, 54 Portsmouth Street, Concord NH 03301

When: Friday, July 13th from 8:30 to 2:30.

Cost: $50 and includes all guides and materials.

Pre-registration is required. Please go to http://www.nhplt.org/index.php/calendar/event/44/

Registration Deadline is July 9th .

Location: The Conservation Center, 54 Portsmouth Street, Concord NH 03301
Contact: Erin Hollingsworth Education Director NH Project Learning Tree 54 Portsmouth Street Concord, NH 03301 www.nhplt.or

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