For Teachers

Learning from life experience is a basic concept of education programs at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens.  Students use park resources to form basic concepts to succeed in school.  The site presents opportunities for learning for preschoolers to adulthood.  We have service learning projects, science fair projects, and will partner with schools on programs that reflect learning goals and park goals. 

See a list of existing programs.

Sustainable use is at the heart of legislation that created the National Park Service.  Join our trash free park initiative by reducing trash, and taking lunch packaging back to recycle. 

Want to go further?  We have partnered with Reid Temple School on a school wide sustainable life style program.  For more go to http://www.reidtempleacademy.com/component/content/article/142-go-green-kids

Park resources schools may be interested in include a variety of wetland habitats including some of the original marsh of Washington, DC, the Anacostia River, Watts Branch and meadows built in the 1990s by the National Park Service.   

 

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens is a site of  the Bridging the Watershed Program for high school students.  Click here for more information.

 

In one place one can see how the Nacotchtank used the land, how wetlands were destroyed for commercial development, and built as we recognize their value in a watershed. There are river, marsh, swamp, and pond habitats for service learning projects.

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Teach science by participating in a park study.   Students learn what makes a good study, why protocol is important.  Call Kate at [phone] or e-mail.