Third Grade Information for the Cornell Botanic Garden



Information from the traditional in person field experience
Third grade students visit Cornell Botanic Gardens for a program titled "Wildflower Exploration: Learning about Plants Through our Native Wildflowers". Students’ KDT! experience begins with a classroom visit from a Cornell Botanic Gardens educator. This visit engages the students in hands on experiences that prepare them for their trip. Students . are assigned a wildflower that they investigate by using their "Peterson First Guide to Wildflowers" book; then, while at the Cornell Botanic Gardens, they have an opportunity to find "their" flower and educate others about it.
Pre-Trip Activity
The Book lesson below is an excellent way to help students prepare for their field experience
at the Botanic Garden.
Post-Trip Lesson
This lesson written by Sharon Nelson, Kim Snow and Raylene Ludgate (Cornell Botanic Gardens) explores the common and Latin names of wildflowers. This fun lesson culminates by making a caricature of a plant name i.e. Blue Bells by drawing blue bells!
KDT! Book for Third Grade
