Name
Grow Tomorrow with Smithsonian Gardens (In-Person)
Date
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Time
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
Description

How can we inspire the next generation of environmental stewards? Join Smithsonian Gardens for special tour of three gardens featured in our campus-wide exhibition, Growing Tomorrow to find out. Experience the way gardens can lift our spirits in the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden, consider how nature can spark innovation in the Kathrine Dulin Folger Rose Garden, and explore personal connections to gardens past and present in the Enid A. Haupt Garden. The session will conclude with interdisciplinary garden-themed activities that you can replicate with your students that center gardens as civic spaces where the arts, sciences, and humanities meet.

 

Where To Meet:

Meet between 9:45 am - 10:00 am outside the north entrance of the Arts and Industries Building (AIB) on Jefferson Drive. The group will gather by the benches in the Kathrine Dulin Folger Rose Garden, to the right of the entrance to AIB. Session programming takes place from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Katie Munn
Session Type
2-hour in-person experience (Thurs., July 16 only)
Session Track
Designing STEAM Solutions for Civic Challenges
Grades
PK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subject Areas
Science, Social Studies
Audience
PreK and Elementary School Teachers, Middle and High School Teachers, Media Specialists and Librarians, Museum Educators and Staff, Higher Education
Location Name
Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building