2024-2025 School Year

We are not accepting requests for guided or self-guided field trips for the 2024-2025 school year.

If you have questions, please contact us at 919-668-1707 or gardenseducation@duke.edu.

If you are looking for college/university programs, please see our University Programs page here.

Guided School Programs: Unvavailable

We are not accepting requests for guided school field trips at this time. 

Guided Programs for Homeschool Groups: Unavailable

We are not accepting requests for guided homeschool field trips at this time. 

Self-Guided Groups: Unavailable 

We are not accepting requests for self-guided group visits at this time. 

GARDEN VIDEOS, VIRTUAL TOURS AND OTHER RESOURCES

Can’t come to Duke Gardens? Watch any of the videos in your own time or find a collaborative science project to participate in from your location.

Tour of the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants

Join Duke Gardens’ youth educators to explore the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants.  What is a native plant? What do living things need to survive and how can they find these needs in a garden? Can a plant be a predator? Which line of latitude goes through Duke Gardens? What does a bullfrog sound like? Learn the answers to these questions and more in these materials.

Information for Teachers

Video Tour part 1  |  Video Tour part 2

Self-Paced Interactive Map Tour

Pre-Tour Quiz  |  Post-Tour Quiz

Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt

Extension Activities

Field Trip Friday: Buzzing About Duke Gardens

Thanks to the Museum of Life and Science for including Duke Gardens in the Field Trip Fridays series for Durham Public Schools! We are super excited to share some of the amazing stories of ecological interdependence happening every day in the Gardens. Plants, animals and many other organisms depend on one another to live and thrive in this urban ecosystem right here in the heart of our city!

Video

Duke Gardens YouTube Channel

View more Duke Gardens videos here!

Collaborative Science Projects listed by grade level: SciStarter

Browse SciStarter's large collection of collaborative science (also called citizen science) projects organized by grade level.

WE ALSO OFFER PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS!

Email GardensEducation@duke.edu to inquire about teacher professional development opportunities.