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- Project Green Reach
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Project Green Reach
Project Green Reach (PGR) is an outreach program for K-8 teachers and their classes from Brooklyn’s Title I schools. PGR provides: a curriculum package for the topic of your choice, inquiry-based instruction in your classroom with a plant for each student, transportation and a guided tour of BBG, as well as teacher training and supplies for a community horticulture project.
Teachers must apply for acceptance into PGR. For more information or to request an application call 718-623-7358 or 718-623-7228.
Project Green Reach currently offers the following curriculum options:
- Life Cycle of a Bulb—The fast growing Paperwhite Narcissus is the perfect subject for scientific observation and data collection. Students can see these bulbs bloom within six weeks of being planted. Find out with your class why bulbs grow so fast!
- Kitchen Botany—Do people eat plants? When you eat a carrot what part of a plant are you eating? Students will observe, plant, and cultivate their own carrot as they answer these questions and learn about the different plant parts and their functions.
- Desert Environments—The desert environment is both harsh and fascinating. Students will discover how plants have adapted to survive the arid conditions and extreme temperatures of this environment. In class, students will dissect a cactus or succulent and pot up a desert plant of their own.
- Tropical Rainforests—How is the tropical rainforest different from the forests of Brooklyn? Students will observe and compare plants from each of these locations as they explore this question. In class, students will each plant their own terrarium with tropical plants they propagate themselves. Themes of biodiversity, adaptation, and plant-animal interdependence are introduced.