Everett Children's Adventure Garden |
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The Everett Children's Adventure Garden is a 12-acre outdoor
and indoor facility designed especially for children. changing
landscape, themed galleries, and interactive exhibits provide
a living and dynamic stage for hands-on learning about plant
science. Click here for
pages from the new 2005 - 2006 catalog related to The
Everett Children's Adventure Garden.
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A Teacher's Guide to the Everett Children's Adventure garden!
To Maximize the educational value of your visit, this publications
will be sent to you with you registration materials. It contains
suggestions for activities to do before, during and after
your visit, as well as background information and resources.
Click here for online
version or click here
for printable PDF file.
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Self-Guided Visits
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Self-guided visits are offered for
classes who want to explore the adventure Garden on their
own and at their own pace. The garden includes six learning
galleries, each focusing on a different aspect of plant science,
filled with dozens of hands-on interactive exhibits. Click
here for a listing of exhibits.
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Garden Adventure SEEDS
Curriculum Units |
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To purchase units and register for professional development,
call 718-817-8177
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Explore plant parts
and adaptations with Garden Adventure SEEDS (Science Explorations
and Education Discovery Series), These unique classroom curriculum
units are designed to help teachers improve their students'
science literacy and utilize the Adventure Garden as an extension
of the classroom. Each kit includes a complete curriculum
of classroom lessons with a teacher's guide and reproducible
handouts, children's books, a full- day professional development
session, two class trips to the Adventure Garden, a pre-trip
pass, a class set of hand lenses, materials for activities,
and more!
Please click the links
below for more detailed information on each SEED Unit:
SEEDS
UNIT 1: Plant Parts (for K-1st grades)
SEEDS
UNIT 2: Plant Adaptations (for 2nd and 3rd grades) NEW!
Leadership support for Garden Adventure
SEEDS provided by ChevronTexaco
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Guided Explorations |
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Tuesday-Friday
Session l: 10-11 a.m.
Session ll: 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session lll: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Fees : See each program
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Guided explorations are led y trained Explainers.
Content, format, and activities vary with each season and take
advantage of the changing landscape of the Everett Children's
Adventure Garden. Throughout all of the programs, students use
their senses and take home field notebooks to engage in an active,
hands-on approach to learning. |
Grades:Pre-K-5
Availability: september 6-November 18
Location: Outdoor Galleries
Fee per class: $75 (September only, $40)
ECAG-500
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Plants
are Nuts about Fall
Search outdoors for signs of fall and investigate its seasonal
changes. Students become plants scientists by using hand lenses;
exploring seeds; making leaf rubbing; sketching plants; asking
questions; and exploring answers. Each groups begins a fall
science activity to take back to the classroom. |
Grades:
Pre-K-5
Availability: November 22-Jan 6
Location: Indoor Galleries
Fee per class: $105 (Fees include self-guided visits to
the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory)
SCP-700
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Holiday Trains and
Treats
For a doubly exciting program, students enjoy the delightful
Holiday Train Show in the
Conservatory as well as Gingerbread
Adventures in the Adventure Garden. During a self-guided
visit to the Conservatory, students see model trains and trolley
move throughout the miniature landscapes of historic New York
State buildings. Delve into the holiday treat of gingerbread
in the Adventure Garden, where students discover the plants
parts in the gingerbread and taste a gingersnap treat.
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Grades
Pre-K-5
Availability Janurary 24- February 24
Location: Indoor Galleries
Fee per class: $75
ECAG-506
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The Life and Work
of George Washington Carver NEW!
Discover the fascinating story of this plant scientist extraordinaire.
With inspiration from Dr. Carver's achievements as a plant scientist
and advocate, students embark on scientific explorations, brainstorm
how they can be advocates for the plants, and begin a timeline
of their own science experiences. |
Grades:
Pre-K-5
Availability: February 28-March 31
Location: Indoor galleries
Fee per class:$105 (Fees include self-guided visit to the
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory)
SCP-800
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Chocolate and Vanilla
Adventures
In the Adventure Garden, learn all about chocolate and vanilla--their
histories, where they come from, and how they get from plants
to the products we know and love. Students examine cacao seeds
and vanilla seedpods and make ancient hot chocolate. In the
self-guided visit to the conservatory, they see where it all
begins by searching for the humble cacao tree and elusive vanilla
orchid.
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Grades:
Pre-K-5
Availability: March 29-June 24
Location: Indoor Galleries
Additional session in spring: 4-5 p.m
Fee per class: $75
ECAG-501
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Plants Get Spring
Fever Too
Explore the signs of spring in the Garden to discover how plants
grow and how animals and plants depends upon one another. Students
become plants scientists by using hand lenses; making observations
and sketches of plants; asking questions about their observation;
and exploring answers. Each group begins a spring science activity
to take back to the classroom.
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Grades:
Pre-K-5
Availability June 27-September 2
Location: Outdoor Galleries
Fee per class: $75
ECAG-507
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The Buzz About Bees
NEW!
Find out how these busy insects are hard at work in the Adventure
Garden. Children learn how honeybees make a hive and the role
that each bee plays in making the hive successful. Taste the
results of the bees' labor-honey. Each child makes a bee craft
to take home.
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Pea Pod Explorers for Pre-K |
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Tuesday-Friday
10:15-11:15 a.m.
Two of four-session programs, offered on consecutive weeks
T wo sessions: $150
Four sessions: $275
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This is a two or four session
program that introduces young children to the wonders of nature
and includes songs, stories, hands-on explorations, and activities
to take back to the classroom. Participants in the four session
program go into greater depth and engage in more activities
and experiments. At the program’s conclusion, each child
receives a hand lens and a certificate of achievement. |
Grades:
Pre-K
Availability: September 6 - November 18
Location: Everett Children's Adventure Garden
PPEF-200
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Fall into Fall
Fall's changing colors amaze and delight the senses. Children
investigate these changes and more as they examine colorful
leaves and leaf litter critters, discover animals getting ready
for winter, explore seeds in nature and inside a fruit, and
plant seeds to take back to the classroom.
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Grades:
Pre-K
Availability: April 4 - June 23
Location: Everett Children's Adventure Garden
PPES-300
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Spring into Spring
Children explore the natural world as it reawakens in spring.
They observe the life cycle of a butterfly and the role of butterflies
in the garden, investigate flowers, learn how plants grow, and
pot up a plant to take home.
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Grades
Pre-K
Availability: June 27 - September 1
Location: Everett Children's Adventure Garden
PPES-400
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Cool Summer
Investigate what lives in the Garden’s cool waters with
pond dipping and a touch tank. Children discover pond plants
and creatures, explore how vital water is to living things,
and participate in experiments and activities to take back classroom.
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