Education Impact
Living and Breathing Education
The North Carolina Arboretum Society assists the Arboretum in its mission to connect people with plants through education, exhibition and demonstration, while continuing to create purposeful engaging experiences that foster a love of lifelong learning.
Growing the Future
Challenge yourself to learn about the natural world through an Adult Education class or start a new resource protection process. You might be a game changer in your community.
Teaching Teachers the Wonders of Outdoor Learning and Education
Yesterday, Tuesday, August 15, 2017, The North Carolina Arboretum’s youth education program welcomed approximately 45 teachers for its first-ever Project OWL workshop. Project OWL (Outdoor Wonders and Learning) is a new schoolyard initiative developed by …
STEM: Connecting People, Plants and Jobs
Throughout the year, the Arboretum’s youth education department is constantly busy creating programs, events, camps and classes that encourage children to get outdoors and explore nature. Beyond just splashing in Bent Creek or hiking along …
Natural vs. Digital – How to Bridge the Gap
As a child of the 1980s and now raising two small children of my own in this new millennium, I have mixed feelings regarding the presence digital devices should have within the home and beyond. …
The educational programs at the Arboretum completely transformed our students’ understanding of local ecology. The hands-on approach made complex scientific concepts accessible and exciting.
— SARAH JENKINS, MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER
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