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Complementary Activities and Educational Tools
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Unless stated otherwise, most educational activities are usually offered in FRENCH or ENGLISH, please specify at reservation time. School Groups Program:
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Students with intellectual handicaps
The Vegetable Garden
In this workshop, students will get a close-up look at a plant from the vegetable garden.
They’ll learn to develop their critical judgement and to use the information available to them.
They’ll discover that broccoli is a flower and that they eat roots, themselves!
The workshop will end with a brief look at composting.
Public : Students with intellectual handicaps
Length: 60 minutes
Capacity: 2 classes
Location: Multipurpose room
Dates: February 8 to June 9, 2012
Schedule: 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
Students with intellectual handicaps
Using all your senses to discover plants
Have fun using all your senses to learn about plants:
their spectacular looks, their heady scents, their surprising textures,
their exquisite tastes and even their intriguing sounds!
A fun look at the senses and the plant world.
For the best workshop experience,
we recommend a ratio of one accompanying adult for every five students.
Length: 45 minutes
Capacity: 2 classes
Location: Multipurpose Room
Dates: February 8 to June 9, 2012
Schedule: 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
Students with learning difficulties and reception classes – ages 7-12
Plants from Roots to Fruit
This trip through the greenhouses is sure to pique your students’ curiosity!
They’ll learn about the secrets of vanilla, chocolate, chewing gum and many other natural products.
Then there are aerial roots, bark used to flavour pastries and some strange leaves.
Length: 30 minutes
Capacity: 2 classes
Location: Greenhouses
Dates: February 8 to June 9, 2012
Schedule: 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Reception classes and students with intellectual handicaps
The sugar shack!
Through games and rhymes, your young charges will learn all about maple trees and how the delicious syrup is made.
Afterward, they’ll head outdoors for a yummy treat!
Length: 45 minutes
Capacity: 1 class
Location: Tree House and Arboretum
Dates: February 7 to April 27, 2012
Schedule: 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
Reception classes and students with intellectual handicaps
Woksis, The Legend of Maple Syrup
From Native wigwams to today’s sugar shacks, maple-syrup
production has changed in many ways.
The tradition and delicious taste remain the same, though!
Children will play some games to learn to tell maple trees
apart from other trees in the forest and how maple syrup has been made over the centuries.
Length: 60 minutes
Capacity: 1 class
Location: Tree House
Dates: February 7 to April 27, 2012
Schedule: 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
Reception classes and students with intellectual handicaps
Trees up Close
Students will join Professor Bellefeuille and
learn all about trees, their needs and the
important role they play for animals. Pencils
and magnifying glasses in hand, the budding
naturalists will identify, observe and discover
different structures of deciduous and
coniferous trees. A great way to make learning fun!
Capacity: 1 class
Length: 60 minutes
Location: Tree House and Arboretum
Dates: September 12 to October 31, 2011 & February 7 to May 11, 2012
Schedule: 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
The Montréal Botanical Garden Website
Are your students looking for information on plants? Your budding geniuses can hop a mouse and find all the details they need at our Website
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Le J@rdin des jeunes branchésIn French at our website for kids aged 6 to 12!questions. http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/jeunes/ Favorite activities [IN FRENCH ONLY]:
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They can also use information available in English on the main Website:
http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/en/
How Plants Reproduce
This kit includes all kinds of multidisciplinary
projects. It comes in two separate cases, with
17 activities. It targets the core learnings
relating to several aspects of the living world
in the Science and Technology part of the
Quebec Education Program.
PART 1
Theme 1: Flowers
Lots of activities on the theme of flowers,
their roles, their diversity and how they reproduce.
You can even incorporate a bit of
language and history, with the story of the
War of the Roses, the historic 15th-century
conflict over the English throne.
Theme 2: Pollination
An activity where you get to have fun
matching up ideal couples—flowers and
pollinators. Then find out how the amount
of pollen suspended in the air varies over
the course of the summer. Surf the Internet
to discover how pollen counts are
measured and observe pollen under an
electron microscope.
Theme 3: Fertilization, from flowers to fruit
Two activities to have fun uncovering the
mysteries of how plants are fertilized.
Some extraterrestrials are keen to find out
how flowering plants on our planet reproduce.
But they sometimes get mixed up in
their observations. By growing and caring
for a flowering plant, you can observe its
complete life cycle.
PART 2
Theme 4: Fruit and seeds
Four fun experiments about fruit and
seeds. Create an identification key for a
grab bag of seeds, calculate and measure
the volume of a seed and turn your class
into a laboratory to test the viability of barley
seeds.
Theme 5: Reproducing without flowers
Take a private tour of the Botanical Garden
production greenhouses and discover the
secrets of vegetative reproduction. Become
growers for the day and try your hand at
different propagation techniques.
Theme 6: Humans and plant reproduction
Should we be pursuing research into
GMOs? Compare several selected varieties
of corn with the original plant. A look at
how humans modify plants. Then have fun
as you wrap up this theme by learning all
about in-vitro culture, and grow your own
test-tube strawberries.
IN FRENCH ONLY
Public: Elementary cycle three and secondary cycle one
Rental period: 4 weeks
Cost: $80, transportation & handling extra
Make cheques payable to the "Ville de Montréal", unless
otherwise indicated when you reserve.
Information and rentals: 514 872-7959
At the Tree House
All About Trees
This classroom kit offers an attractive, concrete
approach to three different themes:
trees’ characteristics,
their growth and what
they are used for.
IN FRENCH ONLY
Public: Elementary cycle two and grade 5
Rental period: 2 weeks
Cost: $40, transportation & handling extra
Information and rentals: 514 872-6824
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