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Programs for Teachers
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Materials fee: $20 per workshop
10 workshops for $150
Register for 10 workshops
and receive two free self-guided visits to the Everett Children's
Adventure Garden or Enid A. Haupt Conservatory for your
class!
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Professional Development Workshops
These half-day workshops are designed
to provide you, the classroom teacher, with important science
content and guidance in effectively utilizing techniques of
inquiry-based learning. Learn how to creatively use the Garden
as an extension of your classroom and receive proven classroom
activities, discussion points, and reproducible curriculum
materials. For your convenience, workshops are offered on
Saturdays and/or school breaks.
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Three "G" in-service credits from
the New York Department of Education are available for participants
completing 10 workshops (additional fee and requirements apply).
Three units of New York City Department of
Education New Teacher Credit are available per workshop.
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Plants
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Dates: October
2, February 21, or April 25
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-210
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One of the best ways to introduce plant study
to your class through the food, clothing, and medicine that
we use. In this workshop, teachers learn the importance of plants
used in clothing and that "Wearing plants" means more
than grass skirts and straw. |
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The Plant World Demystified |
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Dates: October
2, February 21, or April 25
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-200
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Ease into the topic of plant science and get introduced
to the “big” concepts, such as why plants are so
important, how plants and animals differ, and what makes a plant
a plant. Learn to use the galleries in the Adventure Garden
to convey to your students the significance and wonder of the
plant world. |
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Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds |
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Dates: October
9, February 22, or April 26
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-206
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Flowers, beautiful as they may be, serve a greater
purpose for the plants they grow on. Explore their raison d’être
and experience their dazzling diversity. Discover the parts
of a flower and they function during pollination, fertilizing,
and seed dispersal. Our staff will share with you many flower-related
activities to do in your classroom or at the Garden. |
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Plant-Animal Interactions |
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Dates: October
9, February 22, or April 26
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-207
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Can plants live without animals? Can animals survive
without plants? Learn about the many ways plants and animals
live together and interact-both positively and negatively-and
explore processes such as pollination, seed dispersal, herbivory,
and shelter building. |
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How Plants Grow |
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Dates: October
16, February 23, or April 27
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-201
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Everyone knows that plants need sun water to grow,
but how does the process work? Learn how plants use these resources
to produce food, and explore additional processes that are required
for plants to grow. Take advantage of the galleries in the galleries
in the Adventure Garden to support teaching these concepts to
your students. |
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Introduction to the Forest |
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Dates: October
16, February 23, or April 27
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Forest
PDW-204
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Trek through the Garden’s 50-acre Forest
and experience ecology in action. See the diversity of seasonal
plants and animal life, learn the processes that keep this ecosystem
alive and healthy, and get prepared to teach your students all
about this important resource. |
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Patterns in Nature
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Dates: October
23, February 24, or April 28
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-211
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Nature is filled with dazzling display of patterns,
from the tiniest to the most titanic organisms. This workshop
introduces teachers to the organization of the living systems,
from the veins in a leaf to the trees in a forest. Learn about
fractals and the Fibonacci series, and explore evidence of these
on the Garden grounds and your neighbors. |
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Microscopic Explorations
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Dates: February
24, or April 28
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-212
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This workshop focuses on the minute world that
is invisible to the naked eye. Learn how to use hand lenses
and microscopes, and examine the diversity and beauty of tiny
things around us, from the pollen in the air to the algae in
water to the pores on a leaf. |
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Wetland Ecology
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Dates: October
23
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-213
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Come explore wetlands on the Garden grounds, including
swamps, marshes, ponds, bogs, and rivers. Find out the diverse
life and activity happening in these different wetland environments.
Examine aquatic plants and their unique adaptations and learn
the importance of preserving wetlands. |
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Introduction in the Rain
Forests |
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Dates: October
30, February 25, or April 29
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
PDW-202
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Learn about the fascinating ecology and diversity
of the rain forests by exploring the extensive collections in
the Conservatory. In this workshop, participants compare and
contrast the ecological feature of the lowland and upland forest,
learn about their significance worldwide, and discuss their
current plight. |
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Introduction to the Desert |
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Dates: October
30, February 25, or April 29
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
PDW-203
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Explore the vast and unusual world of desert plants
in the Conservatory. Learn about the biological and physical
features of arid regions throughout the world as well as the
many adaptations that plants have acquired for survival in these
harsh environments. |
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Introduction
to the New York Botanical Garden |
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FREE!
Dates: May 7
Time: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Enid a. Haupt Conservatory
PDW-203
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Explore the Garden and learn about our one-of-a-kind
programs and facilities, including the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory,
GreenSchool, the Everett Children’s Garden, the Ruth Rea
Howell Family Garden, much more. |
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Garden Adventure SEEDS |
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Dates: April 2
or August 7
Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
PDW-203
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Receive a free day of professional development
with purchase of Garden Adventure SEEDS. In this workshop, learn
how to utilize the SEEDS curriculum in your classroom and try
out some of the exciting hands-on activities, such as seed dissection
and sorting. Click here for more
information. |
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Plant Science and Ecology
Seminars |
Half-day Seminar: $30
per teacher
Full-day Seminar: $55 per teacher
Fees include all supplies, materials, parking, and entry
to the Garden.
A minimum of 12
participants is required.
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Are you a school principal, science
coordinator, or staff developer interested in learning about
the myriad resources at the Garden? Choose from the topics
below and our staff will work with you to design a program
that accommodates your group’s needs. We also offer
a menu of long-term project ideas to support the eighth-grade
exit project. Coffee and tea are provided; arrangements may
be made for lunch. Suggested topics:
• The New York Botanical Garden: An Extension of your
classroom
• The Basics of Botany
• Biomes of the World
• Forest Ecology
• Wetland Ecology
• Nature for Early Learners (Pre-School)
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The Sara Lee Schupf Summer Institutes |
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$150 fee
include curriculum materials reproducible handouts, and plants,
plus breakfast and lunch.
Location: Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
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The Sara Lee Schupf Summer Institutes provide a week-long
intensive immersion in ecology and botanical science led by
professional scientists and educators. Participants in this
dynamic program learn how to make science fun through field
testes, hands-on, inquiry-based activities. Teachers discover
how to make the Garden an extension of their classroom, while
enriching the curriculum with award-winning resources and
more.
Click Here for printable PDF
"Educator Application"
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July 11-15 (SI-200),
or July 18-22, 2005 (SI-250)
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• Seedlings Program for teachers
of Grades K-2 |
July 25-29 (SI-300), or August 1-5, 2005 (SI-350)
Become a Teacher Member of the Garden for only $50 a year,
and enjoy all the benefits of Membership. Call 718.817.8174
for details.
Professional Development at the New York Botanical Garden
is supported in part by the generosity of Citigroup.
Support has also been provided by Lucius N. Littauer Foundation,
The Louis Calder Foundation, and the May and Samuel Rudin
Foundation.
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• Saplings Programs for
Teachers of Grades 3-5
Participation in the Summer Institutes is limited
and acceptance is competitive. There are three options for
credit:
• Three "G" in-service credits from New York
City Department of Education Additional fee and requirements
apply.
• Thirty units of New York City Department of Education
New Teacher Credit
• Two graduate credits in education through CUNY Lehman
College
Additional fee and requirements
apply.
For an application or more information call 718.817.8177,
or click here to download an
application
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Teacher Membership
Teachers Join the Garden at a 40%
Discount!
For just $50 a year, you will enjoy:
- Free admission for yourself and
a friend,
- Parking passes for two visits,
- Discounts for the Children's Gardening
Program,
- Subscription to the quarterly
newsletter Garden News,
- Plant Information Service and
use of the members' circulating library,
- Discounts on purchases at the
Shop in the Garden,
- Invitations to special members
events and tours,
- Discounts on Continuing Education
courses, and much more!
Contact our Membership Office at
(718) 817-8724 or CLICK
HERE for more information or to become a member.
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