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Project Learning Tree (PLT) was created in 1976, after passage of the first National Environmental Education Act in 1970 and celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, raised the profile of environmental education in the United States. It was the first of several “Project” environmental education programs developed around that time, and still in use in the 21st century, that use aspects of the environment to teach broader subjects and skills. Project Wild, which uses wildlife as its focus, was conceived in 1979 and launched in 1983.〔(Project WILD )〕 Project Wet began in 1984 with a focus on water.〔(Project Wet )〕 PLT’s curricula and programs “use the forest as a window on the world to increase students understanding of our environment; stimulate students’ critical and creative thinking (); develop students ability to make informed decisions on environmental issues; and instill in students the commitment to take responsible action on behalf of the environment.”〔(Project Learning Tree mission statement )〕 PLT provides professional development to educators for about $15 each, which includes a teaching workshop and guidebook of lesson plans. More than half-million educators have attended workshops to learn how to use PLT materials since 1976 in the United States and U.S. Territories, Japan, Mexico, El Salvador, Sweden, Slovakia, Ukraine, China, Finland, Brazil, Jordan, and the Philippines.〔(PLT website )〕 Peace Corps volunteers also use PLT activities with youth around the world.〔(Peace Corps website )〕 == History == In 1970, Rudy Schafer, an environmental education specialist in the California Department of Education in Sacramento, received funding from the Office of Environmental Education in the then-U.S. Office of Education to hold a meeting to enable state-level education and resource management professionals to share information about how to teach about the environment. Shafer invited two representatives each from 13 western states to a meeting in Seattle in 1970—one who worked in a state-level education agency and one who worked in a state-level natural resource agency. The group called itself the Western Regional Environmental Education Council. At WREEC’s third meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1973, two staff members from the American Forest Institute, a national association funded by forest products companies and since organized as the American Forest Foundation,〔(kit American Forest Foundation media kit )〕 attended and proposed that WREEC develop a forest-based, environmental education curriculum that AFI would fund. After some discussion, WREEC members agreed “but only if we could build a credible, bias-free program based on strong pedagogical principles.” A small PLT staff coordinated writing workshops where teachers and resource professionals drafted and pre-tested what became an activity guide with 75 activities, entitled Project Learning Tree: Supplementary Curriculum Guide for Kindergarten through Grade 6. The guide has been continually revised and updated since the mid-1970s, most recently in 2006, but it still has many of the same elements from the original publication. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project Learning Tree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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