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Schools and Outreach
Garden Field Trips
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Field trip hands-on activities guide students through the Garden's natural areas.
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Garden field trips provide an excellent opportunity for students, K-12, to learn about plants and the environment. Field trips are scheduled Tuesdays through Friday mornings throughout the school year. Hands-on activities guide students through the gardens, natural areas, and tropical conservatory. All field trips are correlated to Georgia Performance Standards; pre- and post-trip activities are provided. Field trip topics include: Foreco's Garden, Really Remarkable Rainforest, Stream Adventures, Amazing Medicinal Plants, Treats and Treasures from the Botanical World, Our Shared Forests, Ecosystem Standards Check, and Invasive Plants Service Learning Project. Follow the links below for field trip descriptions and registration.
Adventure Packs
Adventure Packs provide a wonderful self-guided field trip option for youth leaders and home school groups. Each pack contains maps and supplies for hands-on science activities, plant hunts, and forest explorations to be completed in different areas of the Garden. There is a $20 charge for all packs which may be used for up to three hours. A driver's license must be left behind until the packs are returned.
Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest
Each year the Garden co-sponsors this contest with the Non-game Endangered Wildlife Program of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The contest provides an excellent opportunity for teachers to introduce their students to Georgia's native plants and animals. Any student in grades K-5 that is enrolled in a public, private, or home school association is eligible to participate. Posters must portray Georgia non-game (not legally hunted, trapped or fished) wildlife interacting with plants.
Family Science Nights
A Family Science Night is an evening program of science activities in which students and their parents work together on simple, age-appropriate, inquiry-based science activities. Two Family Science Night kits are available on loan, each containing over 25 activities: the Garden Earth Naturalists (GEN) kit and the Our Shared Forest (OSF) kit. Both provide effective ways to draw the community and parents into schools.
 Garden Earth Naturalist After-School Clubs
Garden Earth Naturalist (GEN) clubs provide fun, informal, environmental education activities for children in after-school settings. GEN clubs help children better understand Earth's ecosystems, value the "services" these ecosystems provide, and take positive actions through service learning projects on their own club sites. A two year sequence of club modules is provided. To participate, teachers or other club leaders attend a workshop in early Fall with a follow-up session in Spring.
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