California PLT news & updates
2021 | Summer Issue
Upcoming Events

PLT Educator Workshop
October 23, 2021 9:00 am-3:30 pm
Turtle Bay Exploration Park
844 Sundial Bridge Drive, Redding, CA

PLT Facilitator Workshop
October 24, 2021 9:00 am- 1:00 pm
Turtle Bay Exploration Park
844 Sundial Bridge Drive, Redding, CA
Meet your PLT Team
PLT has grown to now include a Northern and Southern California coordinator. Contact them today to find a PLT workshop near you!
Featured PLT Activity
Learn about the connections between the forests and everyday household products with this hands on activity.
New PLT Changes!
California PLT is growing! Please welcome our new regional coordinators as we work to better provide new products, tips from educators, and professional development opportunities throughout California. We are tree-mendously excited you are part of the Project Learning Tree California Network.

National Project Learning Tree (PLT) has also released a new curriculum guide integrating investigations of nature with science, math, English language arts, and social studies. Project Learning Tree is a long-established, award-winning environmental education program that uses trees and forests as windows on the world to advance environmental literacy, stewardship, and pathways to green careers.
Meet Your New PLT Coordinators
Cynthia Chavez
(Southern California Region)
Cyndi is the California State Coordinator for PLT and regional coordinator for Southern California. Cyndi earned her M.S. in Environmental Studies from CSU Fullerton where she worked on the Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience (U-ACRE). There, she built gardens at local elementary and middle schools to use as outdoor laboratories in STEM education. PLT has allowed her to combine her love for education and environmental studies.

700 W. Main Street Alhambra, CA 91801
626-586-1937 (Office)
626-223-9413 (Cell)
crchavez@ucanr.edu
Emmy Westlake
(Northern California Region)
Emmy is the regional coordinator for Northern California. Emmy graduated from CSU Chico and comes to PLT from the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County. She was born in Redding, California and enjoyed growing up in the Shasta-Trinity and Modoc Forest. Getting folks outside and into our natural resources continues to be her passion and she is very excited to join the Project Learning Tree team.
1754 Walnut Street Red Bluff, CA 96080
530-527-3101 (office)
ewestlake@ucanr.edu
Featured PLT Activity: How to Make Paper
How Paper is Made is a 6-minute video showing the industrial process of paper manufacturing. This video is paired with the "Make Your Own Paper" activity in which students can investigate the paper making process and how it is recycled.
California Project Learning Tree | ucanr.edu/PLT