The Garden offers guided and self-guided student and teacher nature field trips and outdoor exploring activities for students, schools and educational groups, as well as professional development opportunities for teachers in Phoenix, Arizona.
NATURE FIELD TRIPS & ACTIVITIES
Our programs engage kindergarten through 8th grade students and teachers with the Garden’s resources in our nature-based field trips. Explore the outdoors with a hands-on, inquiry-based learning experience— and a dose of fun — to enjoy the Sonoran Desert.
Teacher Nature Workshops
The Garden offers professional development opportunities, appreciation events and more.
Self-Guided Field Trips & Outdoor Exploring
This self-paced experience encourages students to experience the Garden on their own with teachers and chaperones as their guides. These field trips are available to students of all grade levels, professional educators and children’s education and community groups.
Tickets – $9
Guided Field Trips
Garden field trips engage students with fun, hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences to help them enjoy and care about the Sonoran Desert. All field trips are aligned to Arizona state standards to enhance student learning. Available Oct. 22, 2019 – May 8, 2020.
Tickets – $6.50
Grant funding may be available for Title I schools.
GUIDED FIELD TRIP OPTIONS
*Suggested grade levels based on standards addressed during field trip
WILD DESIGNS
EXPLORING ELEMENTS OF ART IN NATURE
*Grades K – 8
90 minutes for Kindergarten
2 hours for Grades 1 -8
Students investigate lines, shapes, colors, textures and patterns to create nature-inspired art while experiencing the Garden’s newest art exhibition, Wild Rising by Cracking Art- an installation of more than 1,000 animal sculptures made from colorful recyclable plastic.
DESERT DETECTIVES
LIFE CYCLES
*Grade 1
2 hours
Students investigate the life cycles of Sonoran Desert Plants and animals – including insects.
DESERT DINING
FOOD-WEBS AND ORGANISM INTERACTIONS
*Grade 1 – 3
2 hours
Students examine interconnections between living things, as they uncover food-webs found in the Sonoran Desert.
THE SECRETS OF DESERT PLANTS
PLANT PARTS & ADAPTATIONS
*Grade 3
2 hours
Students explore plant parts and functions, while discovering the amazing ways plants have adapted to the desert environment.
ARIZONA PLANTS AND PEOPLE
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE & PLANTS
*Grade 3+
2 hours
Students explore how people, then and now, rely on plants to meet their basic needs.
BIOMIMICRY
NATURE AS A PROBLEM SOLVER
*Grades 3 – 8
2 hours, 15 minutes
Inspired by nature, student design, build and test their creative solutions to solve human problems.
add-on: Butterfly Pavilion
Customize any of the above field trips by adding a visit to our Butterfly Pavilion. $3 per participant. Available Mar. 3 – May 8, 2020.
Teachers’ Reward Program
Let the Garden be your resource inside and outside of the classroom. Earn rewards and enhance learning.
Ready to Register?
Visit the LEARN store or contact our team if you have questions.
Field Trip Coordinator
Christine Brehm
480.481.8121
cbrehm@dbg.org
Program Development Manager, Schools & Teachers
Abbie Smith
480.941.3515
asmith@dbg.org
