American Public Gardens Association's Annual Conference is here! If you are attending, make sure to stop by and say hello to us at the Plant Heroes table and pick up samples of our newest educational materials! #PulicGardens #PlantHeroes
Plant Heroes
非盈利组织
Sparking curiosity and empowering young learners to become agents of positive environmental change.
关于我们
Plant Heroes? creates innovative resources and programs which support public garden professionals, educators, and parents educate young learners (K-5th grade) about the importance of plants and forest ecosystems. We hope to spark curiosity and empower young learners to become agents of positive environmental change. To increase access, our educational materials are available in three languages: English, Spanish, and simplified Chinese. Current materials include journals, lesson plans, activity books, conservation comics, and field guides. Topics featured in the materials include forest ecology, journaling, plant adaptations, pollination, insects, fire ecology, developing a sense of place using mapping, using your senses, creating plant mandalas, wellness, invasive species, and more. These printable materials can be downloaded for free at the Plant Heroes website (www.plantheroes.org). Plant Heroes is supported by American Public Gardens Association in partnership with the USDA Forest Service.
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https://www.plantheroes.org
Plant Heroes的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非盈利组织
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 领域
- Youth Education、Forest Health、Public Gardens和Environemental Education
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Plant Heroes journals and discovery packs are a perfect match. Recently Ariel Christian, School & Out of School Programs Specialist with Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI shared this creative idea with us. "We use the Plant Heroes Journals in our activity packs that are available to check-out at our Lobby desk. Usually, families with young children check out the bags to explore the gardens together at their own pace. The journals have been a great addition to the packs! We laminated a couple sets of each so that they can be used again and again. Thanks, APGA & US Forest Service for this amazing, FREE resource!" #connectwithnature #PlantHeroes
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Celebrate #PollinatorWeek with us! Challenge yourself and the young learners in your life to learn something new about pollinators every day this week. Download our free Pollination Journal to begin your challenge. Use your detective skills and observe pollinators up close. https://lnkd.in/g92EkRkp #PollinatorWeek #PlantHeroes # connectwithnature
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Another creative idea from Miss Marie, the Children's Education Manager at Ruth Bancroft Garden. She recently sent us this photo of the Plant Heroes display she created for an outreach event. Thank you Marie for connecting others to our free education materials. You are our Plant Hero! She also recommended we create a marketing flyer that gardens could use at future events. Our new marketing flyer and poster is available for download on our website at https://lnkd.in/e7eXn63J. Photo courtesy of Marie Gelin, Ruth Bancroft Garden #connectwithnature #PlantHeroes #PublicGardens
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Planning to teach your students about insects this summer? Check out the Plant Heroes resources library filled with free lesson plans, journals, and activity books about insects. All these resources are available in three different languages. Download them today at https://lnkd.in/g92EkRkp #PlantHeroes #connectwithnature ??????????
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Learn more about the import work that Dr. Seana Walsh is doing to protect palm trees from the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle. Thanks Dr. Walsh for being a Plant Hero!
Coconut rhinoceros beetles sound and look like something straight out of a 1950s science fiction movie. These beetles are very real and pose a danger to palm trees in our member gardens in Hawai’i. The National Tropical Botanical Garden has the largest living collection of native Hawaiian palm trees in the world. Dr. Seana Walsh is the Conservation Scientist & Living Collection Curator and was recently interviewed by Island News. Dr. Walsh said the beetles are causing the palm trees to be listed as endangered. The beetles fly into the top of the trees and get up in the crown. Then the beetles bore into the heart of the palm and feed on the plant tissue. The boring eventually kills the palm trees. Staff have been busy prioritizing which palms are the most important to save. Once they determine the ones to save, they wrap netting around the palms. The net acts as a mechanical barrier preventing the beetles from eating at the crown. We hope the netting works well for our member gardens in Hawai’i. "The main concern is the potential loss of these species, our cultural heritage," Dr. Walsh shared with Island News. Photos: 1) Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle - Island News 2) Palm Netting - screenshot from the video #GoPublicGardens #PublicGarden #PublicGardens #coconut #palmtree #palmtrees #Hawaii #Kuai #NationalTropicalBotanicalGarden
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Be a Plant Hero! Download free educational resources for teaching youth about pests and pathogens that harm our local trees. Together discover how you can help protect trees from these pests and pathogens. The health of our forests depends on all of us! #connectwithnature #PlantHeroes
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Are you preparing your lessons for summer camps? We have lesson plans, field guides, activities books, and journals to inspire you. Download our free resources at https://lnkd.in/g92EkRkp. All these resources are available in three different languages. #PlantHeroes #connectwithnature
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Hot off the press! The Spanish versions of two of our most popular journals, Looking at Leaves Journal and Wellness Journal, are now available to download for free at plantheroes.org #connectwithnature #PlantHeroes
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