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Guided Explorations provide grade-specific, themed programs that meet state and national learning standards and align with the New York City Scope and Sequence. Led by trained staff, students use their senses and take-home field notebooks to engage in an inquiry-based, hands-on approach to learning as they explore the galleries of the Adventure Garden. Outdoor programs take advantage of seasonal landscape changes. Guided explorations are supplemented by free pre- and post-visit activity sheets, plant journals, teacher guides, and vocabulary sheets. To download these materials, please click on the links within each exploration description below.
In honor of the 2009 bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birthday, the following three Guided Explorations this spring will highlight Darwin's groundbreaking contributions to science.
Tuesday–Friday
Session I: 10–11 a.m.
Session II: 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Session III: 12:30–1:30 p.m.
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Grades: K-1
Availability: September 11–November 16;
April 15–June 27
Location: Outdoor Galleries
Fee per class: $85
ECAG-508 |
Plant Parade
What makes a plant a plant? Most plants have the same basic parts, but not all plants look the same. Students explore the Adventure Garden in search of different leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds to discover both their importance and the dizzying diversity of their shapes, colors, scents, forms, and sizes. Students plant seeds to take back to the classroom. Click here to download materials for this program.
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Grades: 2–3
Availability: September 11–November 16;
April 15–June 27
Location: Outdoor Galleries
Fee per class: $85
ECAG-509
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Seed Go-Round
How does a seed become a plant? Seeds contain all the food and parts to begin new plants. Students investigate how flowers transform into fruits and seeds—which in turn grow into new plants as the cycle continues. After planting their own seeds, students observe the plant life cycle back in the classroom. Click here to download materials for this program. |
Grades: 4–5
Availability: September 11–November 16;
April 15–June 27
Location: Outdoor Galleries
Fee per class: $85
ECAG-510
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Ecology Escapade
Who eats what? Many plants and animals have specialized relationships that help keep their ecosystems in balance. Students learn how living things are connected as they investigate the different links and relationships in the food webs of the Adventure Garden habitats.
Click here to download materials for this program. |
Grades: Pre-K–5
Availability: November 27–January 11
Location: Indoor Galleries
Fee per class: $115 (Fee includes self-guided
visit 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 trolleys move through the magical miniature landscapes of historic New York State buildings. In the Adventure Garden, students delve into gingerbread, discover the plant parts used in this holiday treat, and taste a gingersnap. |
Grades: Pre-K–5
Availability: January 22–February 15
Location: Indoor Galleries
Fee per class: $85
ECAG–506
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The Life and Work of George Washington Carver
Best known for his research on the uses of peanuts, George Washington Carver also invented hundreds of uses for soybeans and sweet potatoes. Through hands-on observations and scientific experiments, explore some of this renowned plant scientist's findings. Students investigate the anatomy of seeds, create a personal science timeline, taste a soybean, and plant a soybean to chart its growth at home. |
Grades: Pre-K–5
Availability: March 4–April 4
Location: Indoor Galleries
Fee per class: $85
SCP–800 |
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. They also prepare ancient hot chocolate using traditional Mayan ingredients and taste modern hot chocolate.
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Grades: Pre-K–5
Availability: July 8–August 29
Location: Outdoor Galleries
Fee per class: $85
ECAG-507 |
The Buzz About Bees
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 type of bee plays in making the hive successful. Taste the results of the bees’ labor—honey. Each child makes a bee craft to take home.  |
Unit 1: Plant Parts
Grades: K–1
Unit 2: Plant Adaptations
Grades: 2–3
Unit 3: Plant–Animal Interactions
Grades 4–5
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Garden Adventure SEEDS
(Science Exploration and Education Discovery Series)
Explore plants and improve science literacy with these unique classroom curricula. Each unit contains fun, inquiry–based lessons and activities, a teacher's guide, reproducible handouts, leveled books, a class set of hand lenses, and more.
To purchase, contact Kendall/Hunt (800.228.0810; www.kendallhunt.com). Also available through FAMIS catalog for the NYC Public Schools. Please call 718.817.8181 to register for related professional development classes. |
