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GreenSchool
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related to the GreenSchool.
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Workshops |
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Tuesday-Friday
Session l: 10-11:30 a.m.
Session ll: 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Session ll: 1:30-3 p.m.
Fee per class
(Session l & ll): $140
Special reduced fee
(Session lll only): $100
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GreenSchool workshops begin indoors
with an inquiry-based lesson and hands-on activities, and
are followed by and are followed by an exploration of either
the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the Forest, or the Garden
Grounds. All workshops include activity sheets that enhance
the hands-on learning, and teaching methods for these workshops
are specifically adapted to different learning styles and
developmental needs. For example, programs for younger grades
may incorporate storytelling, movement, and sensory explorations,
while programs for older grades make use of experiments, observation,
and sketching activities.
Workshops are supplemented by
pre-and post-visit activity ideas. A menu of suggested related
long-term project ideas is available to middle school classes
to support the eighth-grades exit project.
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Grades:
K-5
Availability: All Seasons
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds/Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-201
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`Round and `Round:
The Life Cycle of a Plant
Were does the life of a plant begin? What role does each plant
part play as a plant develops? These questions and more are
answered as students explore the life cycle of plants, observe
and compare different plants and plant parts, and plant seeds
to take back to school for continued investigations.
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Grades:
K-5
Availability: Fall/Spring
Location: Forest and/or GreenSchool
GS-202
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A Forest in the City
Step out of the city streets and into one of the last remnants
of the forest that once covered New York City. The garden’s
50-acre Forest is an amazing ecosystem of plants and animals
that changes with the seasons. Students observe trees at different
stages in their life cycles, search for animal homes, and discover
the role of decomposers in the forest food web.
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Grades:
K-5
Availability: Winter/Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-200
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Life in the Rain Forest
Why are rain forests so important? They are home to more than
half the world’s plant and animal species and many rain
forests plants are used for food and medicine. Students explore
the amazing rain forest exhibits in the Conservatory, learn
about plant adaptations, and pot up a rain forest plant.
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Grades:
K-2
Availability: All seasons
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds/Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-500
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Plant Parts We Eat
We know we eat fruits-but what about stem leaves, roots, and
flowers? Each of these plant parts plays a vital role in our
food chain. Students learn the role of basic plant parts as
they explore plant parts we eat, create a salad snack, and plant
vegetable seeds to grow and observe back in the classroom.
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Grades:
K-2
Availability: Fall
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds
GS-501
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Fall Harvest
Summer draws to close we celebrate the fall harvest-the time
ripe fruit is gathered to eat. Students find out what makes
a fruit a fruit; compare pumpkins, cranberries, and apple; create
a harvest snack, and explore the grounds to look for fruits
and seeds that animals harvest.
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Grades:
K-2
Availability: Winter
Location: GreenSchool and Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-503
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Plants People Use
Although we know that we eat many plants, how else do we use
them in our everyday lives? Many of the things we use, wear,
and live in are made from plants. Students investigate plant-derived
household objects; use plant parts to make a take-home craft,
and explore the Conservatory to learn about plants used by people
around the world.
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Grades:
K-2
Availability: Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds
GS-502
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Root, Shoots, and
Blooming Bulbs
Enjoy the rebirth of spring and explore one of the most popular
kinds of spring-blooming plants-bulbs. Students investigate
the life cycle and properties of these special plants, plant
a paperwhite bulb to follow its life cycle back into the classroom,
and explore the grounds to find different kinds of flowering
bulbs.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Fall/Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Forest/Garden Grounds
GS-308
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Amazing
Adaptations
NEW!
Why are there so many different plants? Plants adapt to living
in all conditions, from the wettest blog to the driest desert.
Explore these adaptations, and take an up-close look at some
unusual plants like Venus flytraps and plants with flowers
that smell like rotting meat. Students are challenged to design
their own plants in response to a variety of conditions.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Fall/Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds
GS-301
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The Art of Plants
What does art have to do with science? Students discover the
similarities between art and science and explore how botanical
illustration is an artistic form that requires scientific understanding.
Through observation and investigation, students create their
own works of art using plants as their inspiration.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Fall/Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds
GS-302
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Number in Nature
Is Mother Nature a math genius? Series, patterns, and repetition
are found everywhere in nature, and many of these patterns are
based on mathematical relationships. Students explore math in
a beautiful setting and investigate how plants and their parts
can be used to extend their understanding of simple arithmetic,
geometry, and number series.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Fall/Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds
GS-303
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Prose, Poetry, and
Plants
The beauty of nature has inspired poets and writers since the
advert of the written word. In discussing the connections among
literature, nature, and science, children discover that they
too can be poets and writers. Using scientific observations
of plants and wildlife, students create individual and class
poems and find out how plants inspire great works of literature.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Winter
Location: GreenSchool and Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-307
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Botanical Explorations
What is a botanist and what does one do? Many of the Garden’s
botanists-or plant scientists-travel all over the world to study
plants. Students explore the Conservatory and become botanists
for a day as they learn about herbaria and make an herbarium
sheet, make their own plant press, and preserve a live specimen.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Winter/Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-300
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Survival of the Spiniest
How do plants live in an environment with very little water?
Explore the Conservatory’s desert galleries to find out.
Students discover the amazing ways desert plants have adapted
to their harsh habitats as they observe and draw different kinds
of desert plants and pot up a succulent.
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Grades:
3-5
Availability: Spring
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds
GS-309
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Pollination Partners NEW!
Pollination- the movement of pollen- is key to the transformation
of flowers into seeds. Students dissect a flower to learn more
about the process of pollination. They explore the relationship
between flowers and their pollinators through a field investigation
of pollinators in action.
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Grades:
6-8
Availability: All seasons
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds/Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-400
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Photosynthesis: The
Basis of the Food Web
Plants make their own food, animals eat plants, other animals,
and the food web is woven. In this workshop, students delve
into the intricate working of photosynthesis through discussion,
observation, and experimentation as they explore its significance
to the rest of the life on earth.
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Grades:
6-8
Availability: All seasons
Location: GreenSchool and Garden Grounds/Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-401
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The Role of Plants
in the Water Cycle
The water cycle is a prime example of the complex relationships
among air, precipitation, and land. To illustrate the role plants
play in this crucial cycle, students perform hands-on experiments
and build mini-terraria to take back to the classroom.
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Grades:
6-8
Availability: All seasons
Location: GreenSchool and Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
GS-403
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Plants up Close
How do leaves and stems look on the inside? In this workshop,
students review the structure and role of major plant parts
a they introduced to basic microscopy techniques. By assembling
and viewing microscope slides, students compare and contrast
their magnified images of stems, leaves, and seeds.
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