New Hampshire Project Learning Tree

Focus on NH Forests

Do you or your students ever wonder how long trees live in NH? Is all bark the same?  What is the difference between a hardwood and a softwood tree?  What products are tree made into?  What else lives in our forests? Find the answers to these questions--and much more--in this supplement to PLT's PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide.

Focus on NH Forests may be downloaded in its entirety or you may download it by the section.

Introduction

Have a Successful Field Investigation

Watch Out for Poinonous Plants!

Get In Touch With Trees (PLT Activity #2)

We All Need Trees (PLT Activity #13)

The Fallen Log (PLT Activity #23)

Birds and Worms (PLT Activity #25)

Web of Life (PLT Activity #45)

Make Your Own Paper (PLT Activity #51)

Looking at Leaves (PLT Activity #64)

Name That Tree (PLT Activity #68)

Tree Cookies (PLT Activity #76)

Resources (Contact information for UNH Cooperative Extension foresters, conservation organizations, land trusts, NH history, and information about the PLT curriculum guides.)

Note:  This publication does not contain complete copies of these activities from the PLT guide; instead, it provides information specific to NH to use with the selected activities, so it easier to teach about the forests in our state.