GARDEN TOURS

Young Sprouts
Grades: Preschool
Program Length: 45 minutes
Introduce your preschoolers 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.

Garden Adventure
Grades: K-8
Program Length: 60 minutes
Move your classroom outdoors to experience nature up close and observe how plants, animals, and insects share a home.
Teacher's Guide - Garden Adventure

Grades: K-3
Students will become nature explorers as they tour Cheekwood’s grounds to discover the role of plants in the environment.
Grades: 4-8
Students will explore plants, animals, habitats, biomes, environment, and resource sustainability and conservation to gain an understanding of the importance of green space to our community.

Garden Passport: International Garden Tours
Grades: 4-12
Program Length: 60 minutes
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 enchantment 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.
Teacher’s Guide – Japanese Garden

Standards-based self-guided garden tours 
Dig deeper into your classroom curriculum with these new self-guided tours. Designed to highlight and satisfy the Tennessee Curriculum Standards, each lesson plan includes information and activities for before, during, and after your visit to Cheekwood.

Growing the Language Arts
Cultivate your students’ creativity and communication skills with this cross-disciplinary approach to the garden. Through garden-inspired literature and an exploration of Cheekwood’s botanical gardens and grounds, students will explore personal expression, poetry, prose, presentation, and many other language arts standards.
Teacher’s Guide

Garden by Number
Designing, planting, and maintaining a garden takes mathematical problem solving and practice. From basic measurement and arithmetic to data collection and graphing, students will implement the concepts they have learned in the classroom to help the Cheekwood gardeners with their daily tasks. 
Teacher's Guide

ART TOURS

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION TOURS