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Backyard Connections: Who Lives in Your Yard?
This new series, Backyard Connections, gives fun and easy tips for exploring the nature right outside your door. Spring is one of the best times for nature observation; it has the benefits of winter,...
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What is the Role of Art in Science Education?
“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same...
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Home Connections: Raising Butterflies Indoors
You may have noticed that the butterflies are back for the summer. Cabbage whites are fluttering around your broccoli, looking to lay some eggs, and tiger swallowtails are looking for nectar in your...
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Little Sprouts Flutter Through the Conservatory: Our Butterfly Friends
Butterflies are beautiful creatures that are not only important to plants, but pretty fun to learn about too! Our Little Sprouts were especially excited to learn about these pollinating pals; in the...
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Backyard Connections: Growing Herbs in Containers
“I remember my first plant fondly: It was a little parsley grown from seed in a cup. I was five.” - Gayla Trail, prolific author and founder of the garden blog You Grow Girl Imagine that you are...
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June is Great Outdoors Month: Celebrate by Going Outside!
“The United States is blessed with a wealth of natural diversity that remains at the heart of who we are as a people. From breathtaking seascapes to the limitless stretch of the Great Plains, our...
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Summer Camp Recap: We Like Dirt
Summer Camp Recap is our Friday seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did...
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Creating a Rich Environment: The Role of the Adult in Children’s Play
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you remember the games that you used to play as a child? Pretending to be princesses, cowboys, explorers with your friends; turning...
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Summer Camp Recap: Art Outside and We Like Dirt
Summer Camp Recap is our Friday seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did...
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In with the Interns: Meet the 2013 High School Interns
In with the Interns is our new segment featuring the 2013 high school interns; this segment will explore what they do, learn and experience this summer. Written by Kate Borger, this segment will also...
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Summer Camp Recap: We Like Dirt
Summer Camp Recap is our Friday seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did...
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Summer Camp Recap: Groovin’ in the Garden and Plant Your Plate
Summer Camp Recap is our Friday seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did...
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In with the Interns: Week Three
In with the Interns is our new segment featuring the 2013 high school interns; this segment will explore what they do, learn and experience this summer. Written by Kate Borger, this segment will also...
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The Importance of Kindness: Teaching Empathy Through Interaction with Nature
Summer Reruns: Just like your favorite television shows go on hiatus for the summer, so does the blog. We will be running eighteen summer camps in eight weeks, so we will be a little busy! In place of...
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Summer Camp Recap: Bugs in the Burgh and Grow It, Cook It, Eat It
Summer Camp Recap is our Friday seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did...
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Backyard Connections: Snuggling Up to Soil’s Construction Crew
Summer Reruns: Just like your favorite television shows go on hiatus for the summer, so does the blog. We will be running eighteen summer camps in eight weeks, so we will be a little busy! In place of...
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Summer Camp Recap: Cooking with Characters
Summer Camp Recap is our Friday seasonal segment featuring our summer camp programs. This is the place for camp parents to find pictures of their campers in action and see all the fun things we did...
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From the Ground Up: Museums Connect!
“A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity,...
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From the Ground Up: Visit to Braddock Farms
As part of the Museums Connect program, made possible by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the American Alliance of Museums, Phipps is...
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Little Sprouts Love Their Garden Critters!
We just finished our latest four-week Little Sprouts program, We Heart Critters, and we had so much fun! Campers how gardens grow and what friendly critters make their home among the plants and soil....
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