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PLT Materials

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The following materials and handouts have been created by NC PLT facilitators and coordinators. Please feel free to use this page as a supplement for your classroom activities, at your environmental education center, or in your workshops. Though these materials are not copyrighted, please do not use them in any publications.

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Activity Supplements

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Linking PLT Activities and the Master Gardener Program
This handout represents some of the PLT activities that relate directly with Master Gardeners and the Junior Master Gardener Program.

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Ultimate Tree Ring Web Page

Linking PLT Activities with Literature
Suggested Children's Literature for PLT PreK-8 Activities. Prepared by New Hampshire Project Learning Tree in February 2004. This document is 94 pages.

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Bibliography from NC PLT's Linking with Literature Workshop
Take a look and see what books North Carolina educators recommend for use with PLT activities. This bibliography was compiled during the PLT Linking with Literature workshop at the Schiele Museum, and is four pages long.

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PLT Correlations to Outdoor Resources
Already have a nature trail or butterfly garden on your school grounds? Use this publication to see which PLT Activities can be used with schoolyard resources!

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Branching Out Activity Guide
A middle school environmental education activity guide for forest and natural resource issues.

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Classroom Activities from the North Carolina Forestry Association
Activities include How Big is Your Tree, Papermaking, A Day Without Forest Products, Ecology, Silviculture, and more.

Can it be Real #11
-true descriptions of some interesting plants and animals that are native to North Carolina.
Directions: Use these examples in place of or in addition to the examples in the book to wow students about unusual adaptations of native species

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Web of Life #45
-habitat component cards, mostly native NC species
Directions: Copy cards front to back to create "necklaces" for use during the activity. Pictures may be added.

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Tree Treasures #12
-preselected tree products
Directions: Print cards, hole punch top, and thread with yarn to make "Tree Treasure" necklaces.

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Tree Factory
-cards with the different parts and their sounds
Directions: Print cards, hole punch, and thread with yarn to make "necklaces" or just have participants hold.

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Virginia Tech Virtual Forest
4-H Virtual Forest provides youth with an interactive Web-based learning experience that introduces the concepts of forest management to young people age 9 -13. Learning modules complement 4-H experiential techniques and are consistent with the Standards of Learning for Virginia public schools.

 

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