Your students will enjoy these 90-minute interactive experiences that combine garden exploration with hands on experiments and activities. Available throughout the year.
Fee: $5 per student
Teachers are free; chaperones $5 each.
Programs do not include admission to My Big Backyard.
Basic Botany
- Investigate our diverse garden flora and fauna to get an in-depth look at the field of botany.
- Discover flower anatomy, make observations, and hypotheses on pollination
- Visualize the process of photosynthesis and unlock the pigments of plants
- Learn plant reproduction and propagation methods
- Understand monocots and dicots with a dissection and scavenger hunt
Citizens by Nature
- A thought-provoking STEAM-based class on ethics and nature designed to instill civic pride and inspire students to take action
- Discover diversity in the community and the natural world
- Grow environmental awareness through art
- Explore the mid-south’s native plants
- Assess various sites while designing various conservation initiatives
Water: The Wonders of the Wet World!
- Explore My Big Backyard
- Walk through the water cycle
- Investigate pond ecology while dip netting
- Understand the effects of water quality on aquatic life through a macro invertebrate limbo game
- Create a pond souvenir
Please complete the form below to request one of these programs.
This form is a REQUEST only.
Once this request is submitted, our program coordinator will email you a confirmation and request for deposit. Your field trip will be finalized upon payment of deposit.
If you have questions, please contact:
Kristen Zemaitis
kristen.zemaitis@memphisbotanicgarden.com
901-636-4126
-or-
Gina Harris
gina.harris@memphisbotanicgarden.com
901-636-4110