Teachers And Students
Educators! Planning a trip to the Garden with your class? Looking for resources to help plan your lessons? Download the latest version of our School Programs and Teacher Resources brochure to select from one of many standards-based investigations or to learn how to borrow resources for use in your own classroom.
Whatever your age, whatever the season, learning simply happens when you visit the Garden
Become a Teacher Member
Become a Teacher Member and receive special discounts, reciprocal memberships to over 200 gardens and arboreta, and much more! Click here for details on how to become a Teacher Member.
Student Programs
Summer Camps
Grades preK-2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12+
Teacher Resource Kits
Supplement your classroom learning by borrowing a BotaniCool Kit. Most Kits contain curricula, pictures, books, activities and materials to enhance your students’ knowledge of the subject. Each Kit may be borrowed for a two week period and is renewable by request.
Grades preK-2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12+
Professional Development
Explore grade-appropriate plant concepts with Cleveland Botanical Garden.
Broaden your plant knowledge while working with tools and resources available for use back in your own classroom. Participate in activities demonstrating how advanced concepts can be simplified into grade-level appropriate lessons that are sure to enhance student learning. All of our workshops are hands-on, standards-based and include the materials and resources to make these activities part of your science curriculum. You will also tour our gardens and Glasshouse, and earn graduate credit!
Science + Reading Teacher Workshop
Plants 101 Teacher Workshop V
Cleveland Botanical Garden's 10-acre campus is a living laboratory where we invite students and teachers to engage with plants through a variety of programs and initiatives, all designed to foster appreciation for plants and the complex and wonderful roles they play in all of our lives.