Abstract
Given growing environmental concerns such as climate change, identifying high-quality environmental education materials that can be used by youth development professionals to meet their educational goals is critical. The Project Learning Tree (PLT) PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide is designed for individuals to develop the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions and take action on environmental issues. The curriculum has activities that youth development professionals can use to teach a wide variety of environmental topics ranging from air quality to food chains, habitats, recycling, and watersheds, to name a few. In addition, as a high-quality environmental education curriculum, the guide assists those who desire to develop skills in youth such as critical thinking, communication, and civic engagement. This review of the PLT PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide provides an overview of the curriculum and how the activities are structured and outlines considerations for its use by youth development professionals.
Highlights
Getting ready Doing the activity VariationsEnrichment Reading connections Student pagesDescription Names the activity and is descriptive of the activity’s content
Research suggests that environmental education (EE) can serve as a potential resource for youth development professionals looking to advance environmental learning while achieving youth development goals
This research, in combination with the growing environmental concerns, such as climate change, makes identifying high-quality EE materials that can be used by youth development professionals to meet their educational goals critical
Summary
Research suggests that EE can serve as a potential resource for youth development professionals looking to advance environmental learning while achieving youth development goals. This research, in combination with the growing environmental concerns, such as climate change, makes identifying high-quality EE materials that can be used by youth development professionals to meet their educational goals critical. An alignment between Hendricks’s (1998) 4-H Life Skills model and the PLT PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide (Project Learning Tree, 2019) suggests that using the activities with youth can help develop life skills (Bayer & Fischer, 2019).
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