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Want to get hands-on plant science into your home-school curriculum? Consider an Arboretum learning experience. For individuals or homeschool groups, the Arboretum offers hands-on plant experiences that address state science standards in a unique and engaging educational setting.
Come for any one or all of our Homeschool days offered during the school year.
Tuition includes adult admission for home school educators. Siblings are welcome. All participating siblings should be registered. Limit 40
(965-09-13-13)
Friday, September 13, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Horticulture Research Center
Tour the Birthplace of the Honeycrisp Apple and find out how University of Minnesota Scientists are growing better apples for Minnesota. Tour the orchard to see the trees and learn about apple breeding research and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). In the apple room, we will conduct a scientific taste test and find out about bees important role in apple production. In the cider shed we will make and taste fresh pressed apple cider. Suggested ages: 1st-6th grade
(965-09-27-13)
Friday, September 27, 12:15 p.m. - 2:15p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Sensory Garden Program Center
Get to know Minnesota trees, how they grow, and their importance to people and wildlife. Find out how scientists classify trees and practice identification in the Woodland Wildflower garden using a scientific key. Do a real life tree math story problem that looks at how trees grow. Learn some simple methods for estimating the height of a tree, and tour the Pillsbury Shade Tree exhibit to compare the qualities of many different shade trees. Suggested ages: 3rd-6th grade
(965-10-11-13)
Friday, October 11, 12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
Hey, isn't that a life cycle ripening in the garden? Play Life Cycle Bing and search for plants in all stages of their lives. Start a pumpkin seed investigation. Comare the insides of pumpkins and their relatives. Estimate a giant pumpkin's weight and see the amazing diversity of the pumpkin family. Suggested ages: 1st-2nd grade
(965-10-24-13)
Thursday, October 24, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 30 Learning Center
Meet the "Talking Tree" and learn who lives in each forest layer. See how sowbugs and mushrooms turn leaves and dead trees into soil. Search for signs of forest plants and animals on a forest hike. Suggested ages: K-1st grade
(965-11-08-13)
Friday, November 8, 12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
Celebrate the Minnesota Harvest. Enjoy a feast of hands-on learning about locally grown foods. Students will begin this experience by reading food labels, and maps to find out how far sample grocery foods have traveled. Then the students will embark on a tasting tour of locally grown foods. In the Harvest Kitchen, students will harvest sweet potatoes, prepare and taste sweet potato pie. In the Garden Shed, students will make and taste popcorn as we learn about the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash-Minnesota's longest cultivated crops. In the Garden Lab we will make and taste applesauce and learn about how Apples have come to be grown in Minnesota. Suggested ages: 3rd-6th grade
(965-12-13-13)
Friday, December 13, 12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
"Did You Eat A Plant Today?" Discover the plants that become our groceries. Investigate the sources of Hershey bars, bananas, Wheaties, and pizza in the "Please Touch Greenhouse". Make and taste a delicious plant snack with green garlic in the Harvest Kitchen. Plant your own garlic bulb for making the snack at home. Suggested ages: 1st-2nd grade
(965-01-17-14)
Friday, January 17, 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
Explore what the plant world was like during the days of the dinosaurs. Study ferns, horsetails, cycads, and conifers to see the distant relatives of the plants that were on the plant eating dinosaurs menu. Find out why many scientists believe we have dinosaurs to thank for the abundance of flowering plants in our world today. Make and take home a terrarium filled with dinosaur plants. Suggested ages: 2nd-5th grade
(965-02-14-14)
Friday, February 14, 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
How I love thee plants let me count the ways--you give me good food to eat, oxygen to breathe, pencil and paper to write, a home for me and the sweet singing birds. And when I really look closely I realize how beautiful and different you are: the shapes and curves of your leaves, the color and texture of your stems and flowers. Join Gertrude Green in a puppet show to discover how important plants are to everyday life. Visit the greenhouse to closely at the diversity of the plant world. Plant nasturtium seeds for a science experiment which you can add to your salad when you are done. Enjoy making and tasting a naturally sweet Valentine's Day treat called the Plant Part Parfait. Suggested ages: 1st-2nd grade
(965-03-14-14)
Friday, March 14, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
Savor the first taste of spring--Sugar Maple Sap. Find out what makes it sweet (hint: photosynthesis) and how it is made into syrup. Take the Maple Syrup taste test challenge. Hike into the sugarbush to tap a sugar maple tree. See how Native Minnesotans, pioneers, and modern day Minnesota syrup producers have solved the engineering problem of collecting sap from the tree and transporting it to the place it will be cooked. Suggested ages: 1-6th grade
(965-03-28-14)
Friday, March 28, 12:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
$8 member/$10 non-member Limit 45 Learning Center
Imagine stepping into the shoes of scientists to inventory plants from some of the world's most extreme habitats. Find out about the adaptations plants have to survive in the desert, tropical rainforest, and bog. Put your knowledge of plant adaptations to the test by solving the case of the mixed up plants. In the greenhouse, see living examples of desert, rainforest and bog plant adaptations and make your own plant discovery. Make and take a terrarium filled with tropical rainforest plants. Suggested ages: 3-6th grade
Home School groups of 12 or more students may pre-register for any of the Arboretum fieldtrips. Click here for fieldtrip guide.
Fee: $60 for up to 12 students. $5 for each additional student.
Full payment due in advance of the program.
Call to Register your group: 952-443-1422
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