Extracurricular Programs: Science/Environmental

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Project Green Reach
Project Green Reach is a semester long outreach program making inquiry-based science education accessible for teachers and their students from K-8 Title I Brooklyn schools. Teachers receive classroom supplies, resource packets, including curriculum, horticultural supplies for the classroom and school community, and a visit by BBG staff. Students receive a guided tour of the BBG, an exciting hands-on science lesson and a plant of their own to take home, care for and observe. There is a $75 per class registration fee. Two classes must be accepted from each participating school. Schools are selected twice during the school year for fall and spring. Twenty schools are selected each semester. Call and ask that an application be sent to you. Phone: 718-623-7235

City Parks Foundation's City Safari
City Safari is a unique after school program that brings nature, science and the natural environment alive to elementary and middle school-aged children in under-resourced schools and recreation centers. The program is a mix of stimulating indoor and outdoor activities that spark the imagination while also incorporating group activities, life skills, and informal lessons that connect to core subjects.
www.cityparksfoundation.org/index1.aspx?BD=17022

City Parks Foundation's Learning Gardens Are For Everyone
Learning Gardens helps transform low-performing schools through hands-on, interdisciplinary lessons taught in gardens built in public schools. In 2004 the program expanded to building community Learning Gardens in parks to provide lessons for diverse groups including senior & day care centers, homeless shelters, job training programs, church & civic groups, and public schools. The Gardens are open to community residents to work and cultivate together, providing a programmatic continuum throughout the year.
www.cityparksfoundation.org/index1.aspx?BD=16718

City Parks Foundation's Seeds to Trees Spark Young Minds
Seeds to Trees introduces the concepts of forest ecology, park stewardship and preservation to young children using New York City's parks as outdoor classrooms.
www.cityparksfoundation.org/index1.aspx?BD=16705

City Parks Foundation's Learning Gardens are for Everyone
Learning Gardens helps transform low-performing schools through hands-on, interdisciplinary lessons taught in gardens built in public schools. In 2004 the program expanded to building community Learning Gardens in parks to provide lessons for diverse groups including senior & day care centers, homeless shelters, job training programs, church & civic groups, and public schools. The Gardens are open to community residents to work and cultivate together, providing a programmatic continuum throughout the year.
www.cityparksfoundation.org/index1.aspx?BD=16718

Horticulture Society of New York's Appleseed Program
Apple Seed is a horticultural and environmental education program providing innovative hands-on activities and exploratory plant studies for public school children, grades K-6. The program also provides teacher training, afterschool classes, and Family Garden workshops.
www.hsny.org/html/appleseed.htm

Prospect Park Audubon Center's Midwood Green Team Project
Engages 20 pre-teens in hands-on study, restoration, protection, and interpretation of Prospect Park's Midwood, a natural habitat. The project is intended to improve the development and implementation of ecological programs for underserved youth. Project participants design, produce, and install educational signage to encourage environmental stewardship among park visitors. Phone: 718-287-3400

NASA High School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP)
www.nasasharp.com

Therapeutic Riding Centers
NARHA is a service organization created to promote the well being of individuals with disabilities through equine activities.
www.nyshc.org/rapeutic.htm