Cleveland Botanical Garden
Cleveland Botanical Garden's mission is grounded in the belief that quality-of-life can be improved through a better understanding of the interdependence of plants, people, and the environment. Perhaps the most significant challenge for the 21st Century is to find innovative ways to educate people about the importance of the environment and motivate responsible behavior that ensures a healthy future for all life on earth. Cleveland Botanical Garden is poised to make a significant impact—regionally and globally—on issues of environmental stewardship and sustainable community development. From our home base in University Circle, to our off-site urban learning gardens and outdoor classrooms at Cleveland schools, the Garden provides sensory-rich environments to promote life-long learning. Our mission, blending education, social responsibility, culture and environmental stewardship, helps people of all ages and backgrounds appreciate and benefit from the positive role that plants play in their lives.
Address: 11030 East Boulevard
City, State Zip: Cleveland, OH 44106
Organization Contact Info:
Contact Person: Patrick BauerPhone: 216-721-1600
Website URL: http://www.cbgarden.org
Program Listing
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Plants surround us in our daily lives. The clothes we wear, the food we eat, and even the chairs we sit in come from plants. Investigate the diversity of plant use in our lives. This Investigation takes place outside in fall, spring or summer.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Is it alive or not alive? Is it a plant or animal? Based upon characteristics of living and non-living things, students are investigative researchers in the spiny desert and cloud forest finding the answers to these questions.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Plants need air, water, sunlight and nutrients to live and grow, and they have special structures to help them do that. We discuss these structures and locate them in the spiny desert and cloud forest. Then, each student constructs a terrarium to observe back at school. (please provide 1 2-liter...
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Insects eat plants; plants grow on other plants, and some insects protect plants. Students learn of the many relationships between plants and animals, as well as those that occur in differing habitats.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
We'll explore the similarities and differences between our spiny desert and cloud forest, and how they compare with what's right outside our door in Northeast Ohio. Then we'll explore interactions in our two biomes where a plethora of producers and consumers are found.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Plants and animals interact with one another through symbiotic relationships, and some pairs of organisms have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other. Students explore two vastly different biomes, unearthing some of these "isms": mutualism, commensalism, etc...
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Fuzzy leaves, small leaves, large leaves, strange leaves...You see them all as you investigate the myriad of plant adaptions in the Malagasy spiny desert and Costa Rica cloud forest.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
The youngest Garden visitors with an accompanying adult enjoy songs and stories of secret gardens, runaway bunnies, and firefly magic followed by a hands-on activity.
Free with Garden admission
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Youth ages 9-17 (all levels of ability) learn sketching techniques from instructor Susan Morse using colored pencils and watercolor pencils to draw the plants and gingerbread houses of WinterShow. Materials included.
Cleveland Botanical Garden members receive discounted registration.
