PLT/WET/WILD Hike Through the Guides

Project Learning Tree

Using the indices, find PLT, WET, and WILD activities that are appropriate for at least one of the following scenarios. Be prepared to discuss your selected activities, how you would use the activities, and/or how you could adapt the activities to your needs.

1. You teach first grade. One of the standards you are required to teach is exploration with the five senses. Find three activities that will help you meet this standard.

2. You are teaching a multi-age class of students ranging from kindergarten through third-graders. You are teaching a unit of habitats. Select activities that could work well with a small, multi-age group. Also find an activity that you can use as an assessment tool of how well the students comprehended these concepts.

3. In third grade, students are expected to know that plants and animals share and compete for limited resources such as oxygen, water, food, and space. Plan activities that will help you integrate this concept into a two-day interdisciplinary experience.

4. You teach math. Some of your students are having difficulty graphically representing the data they collect. Find activities where students can practice communicating results through words, tables, and graphs.

5. You teach fifth grade. It’s only the first month of school, but already you are noticing that students have broken off into cliques. You need a series of activities that will build tolerance for a diversity of viewpoints, preferable with group learning experience.

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