Curriculum Based Special Exhibitions Tours
Curriculum Based Museum of Art Tour
BOTANICAL GARDEN TOURS
Pre-School Garden Tours
What is a botanic garden? Introduce your pre-schoolers to the garden with this fun-filled interactive tour. Students will explore the garden using their senses: naming the bright colors, smelling the fragrant blossoms, touching the different plant textures, and listening for sounds in nature. To continue exploration, each tour includes a story time and take-home planting activity.
First Adventure: Garden
Grades: K-3
Take your class on a journey through the gardens to observe how plants, animals, and insects share a home. Students will become nature explorers as they tour Cheekwood’s grounds to discover the role of plants in the environment.
Discover Cheekwood: Garden
Grades: 4-8
Move your classroom outdoors and experience nature up close. Study plants, animals, habitats, biomes, gravity, space, environment, and resource conservation. Students will leave with an understanding of the importance of green space to our community.
Carell Woodland Sculpture Trail
Grades: 3-12
Interwoven through the woodlands of the Cheek estate, the sculpture trail departs from the formal museum context. Nestled in the forest setting you will find a synthesis of art and nature. Explore sculptures chosen for their beauty and their responsiveness to the natural environment as they emerge unexpectedly in the landscape of deciduous trees and native plantings. Note: The trail is a natural woodland setting with occasional uneven terrain. Hiking shoes and insect repellant are encouraged.
Beyond Time and Place - International Garden Tours
Grades: 5-12
Our vast outdoor classroom provides 55 acres of trees, shrubs, and flowers for comparative study. Representing different historical periods, the gardens range in style from the serenity of a Japanese garden to the formality of an 18th Century European boxwood garden. Other gardens present the historical and medicinal uses of herbs and wild flowers, showcase native plantings, and define modern horticulture. Each garden inspires students to look at the world around them with a unique, new perspective. Select the garden tour that correlates with your social studies or science unit.
Japanese Garden - Resource Guide
European Gardens
Herb & Wildflower Garden
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