At the Botanic Garden

Maybe you wonder what I do every week at the Botanic Garden----so I took some pictures last Friday and will tell you what goes on.

Here I am ready to work with a group of elementary school kids at the Aquatic Station. The theme is adaptations and I lead them in a discussion of how plants and animals have adapted to living in water.

This group of second graders is from the Chicago Public Schools.

The students observe macro invertebrates and attempt to identify them from charts. There were plenty of creatures in the water--including dragonfly nymphs, scuds and side swimmers. Every one learns something that they couldn't from a textbook in the classroom and gets to enjoy a lovely spring day at the Botanic Garden.