Since 1973, Project Learning Tree (PLT) has reached more than 20 million students, and each year more than 30,000 teachers attend their workshops. Their goal is to help students learn how to think, not what to think about local and global environmental issues. A recent third-party evaluation of the PLT program has confirmed that it is effective in helping students become environmentally literate -- to understand basic science and, more importantly, to enable them to apply this knowledge in everyday life to make reasonable, well-thought out decisions.
PLT has an established network of workshops in every state that involves -- and is supported by -- classroom teachers, state boards of education, state and federal agencies, professional associations, and industry. PLT works with boards and departments of education in every state, providing you with an opportunity to reach key decision makers.
High School Risk Program
Together with many environmental, industry, and educational organizations, the Chlorine Chemistry Division of the American Chemistry Council has supported PLT's development of a classroom curriculum for high school students that examines living with risk. The module provides students with a framework for applying scientific processes and higher order thinking skills to environmental issues. Students will learn to define and assess risk and the costs and benefits associated with various environmental policies and issues.
The module is designed to be infused into existing curriculum and is correlated to the national science standards. For more information, check out PLT's website!