Education Programs
Trees & Trails provide educational opportunities for school age students (Grades K-12) using Project Learning Tree (PLT), widely recognized as one of the premiere environmental education programs in the world.
PLT uses the forest at Burden Center as a "window on the world" to increase students' understanding of our complex environment; to stimulate critical and creative thinking; to develop the ability to make informed decisions on environmental issues, and to instill the confidence and commitment to take responsible action on behalf of the environment. The PLT activities are developed to increase student comprehension of grade level equivalencies (GLE's) in science, mathematics, social studies, and language arts and will increase exposure to our local ecology in the heart of one of the remaining urban forests in Baton Rouge.
The Project Learning Tree activities will be arranged around five major themes and education stations found along the trail. Students will focus on:
1. Diversity - Throughout the world there is a great diversity of habitats, organisms, societies, technologies and cultures.
2. Interrelationships - The ecological, technological, and socio-cultural systems are interactive and interdependent.
3. Systems - Environmental, technological, and social systems are interconnected and interacted.
4. Structure and Scale - Technologies, Societal Institutions, and components of natural human built environments vary in structure and scale.
5. Patterns of Change - Structure and scale change over varioud periods of time.
The activities are developed to increase student comprehension of the state benchmarks and standards in science, mathematics, social studies, language arts and increase exposure to our local ecology in the heart of one of the remaining urban forests in Baton Rouge.
Click here to learn more about the Project Learning Tree components.