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This is a webpage created for the Environmental Education Program at the University of Alabama Arboretum. This program is an outreach program of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. The Arboretum falls under the department of Biological Sciences in the college of Arts and Sciences.
In this website you will find information about the Arboretum and links to important places associated with the Arboretum.
Most importantly teachers can view the Series of Activities and their detailed lesson plans, sometimes with worksheets, that the Arboretum utilizes in its Environmental Education Program.
The Arboretum is a natural woodland area of Alabama located in Tuscaloosa. It is composed of 60 acres including a field, a piney forest, an oak-hickory climax forest, a bog garden, and a wildflower garden. There are 2 greenhouses and an open-air pavilion. The Arboretum is threaded with 2.5 miles of trails through this natural paradise for walking. With the implementation of the Master Plan there is a Children's Discovery Garden, ampitheater, rose garden, and Black Belt Prarie recreation of the historic crops of Alabama projects under construction at the Arboretum at the present time.
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To get to the University of Alabama Arboretum from the University campus, travel south six blocks from University Boulevard on Hackberry Lane to reach 15th Street. Turn Left at the light. Travel east 3 1/2 miles on 15th Street until you reach the junction with Loop Road. Follow the signs to the University Golf Course and Arboretum. Enter the University Arboretum/Golf Course gate, and continue through the paved parking lot to the far end at the left follow the dirt road which takes you to the parking lot of the Arboretum.
"Drawing on a child's natural interest in tree climbing, Tuscaloosa's Children's Hands-On Museum and the University of Alabama Arboretum teamed up to develop an environmental educational program designed to take children off the ground and up into the tree canopy for unique science related activities. Funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, with additinal support from the Alabama Power Foundation, established two treelab platforms at the Arboretum." (Taken from a report written by Kathleen Hughes, executive director of C.H.O.M.) As you can see the hopes and dreams of getting students into the tree canopy has now become reality.
See the Tree Lab Platforms TreeTopology Go To C.H.O.M. Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Environmental Education Program at the University of Alabama Arboretum tries to utilize the treelab platforms in every series of activities so that students can experience this wonderful perspective on Nature. Teachers wanting to use the tree lab platforms must have students in Second grade or higher.
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