Curriculum for Saint John's Arboretum

Saint John's Arboretum announces new hands-on environmental education for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.  Some highlights of the program are free busing, guided field trips, easy-to-use pre-visit teaching kits for classroom use, activities specially designed to meet graduation standards, and access to Saint John's Habitat Restoration Project-160 acres of increasingly rare native habitats including prairie, wetland, oak savanna, and forest.

Areas of Study and Field Activities

• Primary Grades K-3
• Sensory Exploration and Trees (also appropriate for Preschool)
• The Life of Plants
• Insects
• Animal Survival
• Seeds
• Intermediate Grades 4-6
• Minnesota Biomes
• Environmental Changes
• Orienteering
• Middle School Grades 6-8
• Environmental Changes (see above)
• General Habitat
• Orienteering (see above)
• Other areas of study or activities can be arranged through Envr. Ed. Coordinator, Sarah Gainey

 

• All Grades
• General Habitat
• Maple Syrup Exploration