Chicago Botanic Garden

WInter Teacher Programs

PHOTO: Rainforest Ecosystems

Exploring Rainforest Ecosystems

Saturday, January 23, 2010, at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Saturday, January 30, 2010, at the Brookfield Zoo
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fee: $150 ($140 for Educator Members)

Grade level: K-12
CPDU credits: 15
CPS Lane credit: 1
Graduate credit: 1

Spend one Saturday at the Chicago Botanic Garden and one Saturday at the Brookfield Zoo learning about rainforests worldwide—why they’re important, why some are disappearing, and why we need to protect them. Join educators at the Garden in the greenhouses to explore rainforest plants and their adaptations. At the zoo, seek out animals of the rainforest and learn their adaptations for survival. At both locations teachers will learn about rainforests through hands-on activities that support classroom instruction in language arts, math, science, social studies, and fine arts.

PHOTO: hummingbird

New! Plant Partners: Perfect Pollinators and Seed Dispensers

Saturday, February 20, 2010, at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Saturday, February 27, 2010, at the Notebaert Nature Museum
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fee: $130 ($120 for Educator Members)

Grade level: K-12
CPDU credits: 15
CPS Lane credit: 1
Graduate credit: 1

Come explore the amazing and often perplexing interactions among plants and animals in this two-day botanical workshop. One day will be spent at the Chicago Botanic Garden and another at the Notebaert Nature Museum learning how plants and animals have evolved together. Learn how plants have adapted to attract animals to pollinate their flowers and disperse their seeds. Discover how plants guard themselves from hungry herbivores. This course will engage participants in hands-on experiments and observations that will assist in the teaching of science.