Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning environmental education program designed for educators working with students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade.  Through hands-on, phenomena-based, and cross-cutting activities, PLT helps young people learn how to think - not what to think - about complex environmental issues.  PLT can help address state and national standards.  It provides the tools educators need to bring the environment into their classrooms and the students into the environment. 

This hands-on workshop, featuring a functional maple sugaring operation, will also provide educators with the resources necessary to teach the processes and skills of maple sugaring to students at many levels.  During the workshop, participants will be offered a variety of options for implementing lessons into their curriculum.  There will also be a variety of take-home items, including the PLT Activity Guide for participants to begin implementing PLT and the maple sugaring process into their curriculum.  There will be 6.5 Act 48 hours available.

A new distance learning program will also be detailed in this workshop.  Parker Dam State Park is now equipped to provide video chat opportunities in the classroom to students for whom it may not be possible to schedule a Field Learning Experience at the park and its maple sugaring operation.  Educators can borrow a Maple Sugar Learning Kit (including taste samples) for use before, during, or after the virtual session.  Students can have an interactive interpretive experience to learn about all aspects of maple sugar, without leaving the classroom. 

To register, participants must contact the Park Office at (814) 765-0630 or parkerdamsp@pa.gov and pay a $10.00 registration fee.  Space is limited to 20 educators.