Dallas Arboretum
Garden Design Challenge
What environmental factors and landscape design choices must our horticulture staff consider when designing our seasonal plantings? In this new offering, students work with actual Arboretum plant lists and design notes to create a landscape in the garden, with specific focus on elements of design an...
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Chefsville Kids
Chefsville Math Nights (On Campus) 2024
Chefsville connects students for success with Family Engagement Nights! Math Nights offer a way to share information and provides additional core academic activities and resources that will help students and families see an increase in academic achievement.
The program includes a fun culinary d...
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The Writer's Garret
Exploring Character Traits with Martin's Big Words Grades 2-4 (In-person workshop)
Students will explore the concept of character traits by hearing the story of Martin Luther King Jr. They will discuss how his character traits are shown in the story by his thoughts words and actions. After reading the story, each student will create their own cinquain poem describing a character o...
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Chefsville Kids
Chefsville-Kids: Cinco de Mayo (Classroom Program) On Campus 2024
Classroom programs are smaller versions of our assembly programs under the same name allowing more topic detail, student focus, and classroom activities.
Time to "celebrate!" This Cinco de Mayo program is a great way to teach students about a different culture and a story of determination. Studen...
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Mr. Blue Shoes
Mr. Blue Shoes - On Campus
Join over 1,200 schools and 350,000 students who have taken an exciting musical journey with Mr. Blue Shoes. A fun and effective music assembly program that inspires and educates.
Michael Dyson a.k.a Mr. Blue Shoes is a Grammy Award winning musician that will leave your students in a trance with...
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Chefsville Kids
Chefsville-Kids: Science Chefs in Motion (Assembly Program) On Campus 2024
Join us in the journey of "motion through cooking", where students learn will both kitchen safety and the use of motion in the culinary world!
The program demonstrates different kitchen equipment and cooking techniques that will help students identify different forms of thermal and kinetic energ...
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Dallas Arboretum
Texas Native Wetlands Learning Gallery Program- During School Day
How healthy is our habitat? In this program, students explore our Texas Native Wetlands as they collect data on our outdoor, island classroom. Students make connections between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem to determine the health of our waterway using cutting edge scientific tools...
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Dallas Arboretum
Energy in the Garden (Field Trip)
How can we use different forms of energy to solve problems that arise in a garden? After exploring, describing and identifying four forms of energy (mechanical, light, thermal and sound) in everyday objects, students are presented with garden scenarios. They are then challenged to design strategies...
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The Writer's Garret
The Great Kapok Tree and Interdependence
The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry, tells the story of the importance of the kapok tree through the voice of the animals of the rain forest. In this workshop, students will discuss how all living things depend on each other and write a poem about interdependence...
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