Program / Event Details

Cylburn Arboretum is a 270-acre public arboretum and botanical gardens located within Baltimore City.  It has many educational resources available.  This training will familiarize teachers with the property and equip them to be able to lead a self-guided field trip (or schedule a guided program) and take advantage of the variety of opportunities offered.

Training includes …

… … Watercolor lesson, including traditional watercolor techniques of drybrush wash, graded wash, wet-in-wet, and the history of Botanical Art and Science Illustration.

… How to integrate hands-on art activities into various science lessons, such as plate tectonics, botany, rocks, insects, taxonomy, reptiles and amphibians, climate change, erosion, plant adaptations, what plants need, metamorphosis, monarch butterfly migration, vegetable gardening, etc.

… Guided tour of the historic Cylburn Mansion, built in 1888 by copper and chromium magnate Jesse Tyson, featuring  the original plasterwork, tapestry, coffered ceilings, parquet wood flooring, tin ceiling, pocket door, and gneiss fireplaces.  Learn about the history of Baltimore City and its parks.

… Tours of the formal garden and other outside gardens, including a gazebo, a tree struck by lightning, a bamboo forest, collections of magnolias, cherry trees, crabapple trees, metasequoias, maples, milkweed, a dahlia collection, etc.

… Tree ID in winter

… Guided tour of the Nature Education Center, with its collections of taxidermy birds, eggs, live tree frogs, information about the redlining in Baltimore, and a puppet theater.