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Custom Workshops

Staff in the Center for Teaching and Learning can develop custom workshops to be delivered at your site. Teachers, administrative staff, and parent or neighborhood volunteers can all participate through active learning that illustrates grade-appropriate techniques for integrating plant-based learning into the curriculum. Please call Teacher Services at (847) 835-8253 for more information about scheduling and pricing for custom workshops.

upcoming programs:
New! Climate Change Workshop: High school
Wednesday and Thursday, August 4-5, 2010, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in the Fairchild Room
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fee: $150 ($140 for Educator Members)

Grade level: 9-12, CPDU credits: 15, CPS Lane credit: 1, Graduate credit: 1

This two-day workshop introduces a new climate change science curriculum developed by the Chicago Botanic Garden for grades 10-12. Content will cover biochemical cycles including the carbon cycle, carbon sequestration, land cover, and ecosystem change. Learn how to delineate present conditions and historical changes using GIS technology. Explore how changing climates impact economic, social, political, and societal conditions and what it means to become a sustainable society. You and your students can contribute to a national research project on climate change by participating in Project BudBurst. Five weeks of curriculum and materials are provided.