The Education Division offers professional development workshops tailored to your school’s or district’s needs. Options range from an orientation to education programs offered at the Garden to all day workshops here at the Garden or at your school with an emphasis on hands-on, investigative learning.

The Garden also serves as an official training site for GEMS (Great Explorations in Math and Science).

Registration: To schedule Professional Development with the Missouri Botanical Garden or for more information, contact us at (314) 577-9506 or email teachertraining@mobot.org.

• Teaching Strategies
• Inquiry-based science
• Assessment Strategies for Hands-On Science
• Teaching Process Skills Through Hands-On Science
• Connecting Science and Literacy
• GEMS (Great Explorations in Math and Science—more than 60 inquiry-based, guided-discovery units that promote cooperation, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity for grades PK–8.)

• Botany
• Botany for Teachers
• Plants as Teaching Tools in Your Classroom

• Ecology
• Using Your Schoolyard to Teach Ecology
• Ecosystem Investigations (Prairie, Rain Forest, Desert, Wetlands, Temperate Deciduous Forests)

• Using Technology to Enhance Your Science Investigations
• GIS (Geographic Information Systems—investigate and map real world data using GIS software, aerial photographs, and satellite imagery)
• Journey North (a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change)