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This blog will be a place for me to share what I am doing in nature, and how it may apply to Project Learning Tree activities. I will also share my impressions of PLT Forest Tours and why I think everyone should participate in them!
March 2010
Tuesday March 9, 2010
A Walk Down PLT Memory Lane
Posted by: treehuggahaines at 10:25PM EST on March 9, 2010
Hmmm...I got to thinking about my first PLT experience back in the dark ages...it was November, 1980...I was in college and my father was president of our local Audubon society in Boca Raton, Florida. He ran several PLT workshops for high school teachers and elementary school teachers. I was his trusted assistant. (I just rummaged through my environmental books and found my first copy of the PLT book with my Dad's handwriting on it. And, inside, were the lessons we did for Broward County's Ramblewood Elementary School in Coral Springs, FL ... A PLT Safari for Elementary teachers where they had to journey through their Elementary PLT book and search for a list of items (kind of like a scavenger hunt, but in this case to find activities with specific topics), Water You Know, Plant Personification, Vacation Home Simulation, Why Wooden Pencils, Did you see that Dogwood Bark?, and Invent a Game. We facilitated this workshop with two other legendary environmentalists in Florida...Frank Kapp and Jim Phillips. Ahhh...memories...