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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
The national PLT web site houses pdfs all the student pages from the PreK-8 Guide and Secondary modules. In addition, you can find direct links to additional resources and Earth and Sky radio Broadcasts to supplement PLT activities.
Activity #11, Can it be Real?
North Carolina has some pretty fascinating plants and animals! These are descriptions of some of our native plants and animals.Activity #13, We All Need Trees
These "Tree Treasure Cards" can be used as part of this activity by hole-punching the top of the cards and threading with yard to make necklaces. Students can play a game of 20 Questions while they try to determine what product is on their back. Cards can also be displayed in the classroom. English and Spanish version.Activity #37, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Don't Get Wasted)
This activity was adapated from a lesson at Blue Jay Point, a Wake County Park, and includes composting. So instead of collecting "clean" garbage, you can use these activity cards.Here is a great presentation on School Recycling, put together by Kelley Dennings, Education and Outreach Project Coordinator with the NC Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance. Along those same lines is a Composting Presentation originally created by Bianca Howard, City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services Educator, and Jodi Riedel, Horticulture Teacher at Wakefield High School.
Activity #44, Water Wonders
This is a listing of the 'journey' possibilities the student page for the activity. You can cut these slips apart and to use in the activity if you have students move from station to station.Activity #45, Web of Life
Basic cards for a North Carolina based food chain. Copy cards front to back, hole-punch, and thread with yarn to make necklaces. Pictures can be added.Activity #52, A Look at Aluminum
The student page has been simplified and students must try to put the steps in the correct order.Activity #80, Nothing Succeeds Like Succession
The student page story has Sara and John living in a forest typical of the northwestern United States. The story has been modified to a more typical succession story for North Carolina.Forests of the World Secondary Module
The World Forest Tour cards have been modified to remove the pictures. Students have to think which category their statement falls into (and it could be more than one).
Kenan Fellow, Jodi Riedel, has created lesson plans to help your students explore the science of silviculture. Follow this link to the lesson plans on the Kenan Fellow web site.
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.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!Branching Out Activity Guide
A middle school environmental education activity guide for forest and natural resource issues.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.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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