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• Green Kids Camp

  • Start
    07/21/2025
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    07/25/2025
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    3:30 PM
  • Location
    UT Gardens

  This week campers will learn all about sustainable living. They’ll create models of floating wetlands, learn about green roofs, and even propagate houseplants. Through STEAM, we will engage in hands-on exploration of various sustainable, research-based practices for a greener tomorrow. 

  Ages 6-12

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• Critter Camp

  • Start
    07/28/2025
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    08/01/2025
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    3:30 PM
  • Location
    UT Gardens

  Campers will explore all the big and small animals that make their home in UT Gardens. We’ll learn about habitats, conservation, animal life cycles, and how everyone can contribute to healthy ecosystems for plants, animals, and people.  

  Ages 6-12

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• Plant Prop Palooza

  • When
    08/01/2025
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    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    South Greenhouse 124
  • Spaces left
    1

  This program will focus on seed propagation and  propagation through cuttings. We will begin with a lesson on what propagation is and how the process works. The workshop will include a demonstration of how to propagate using these methods along with participants trying out propagation for themselves. All materials will be provided. Participants will get to take home any plants they propagate. 

  
  

  
  

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• Naturalist Camp

  • Start
    08/04/2025
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    08/07/2025
  •  
    3:30 PM
  • Location
    UT Gardens

  Campers will practice observation, create nature journals, and will learn to read nature’s signs as they gain a better understanding and appreciate of the world around them. We’ll explore the relationship between plants, animals, people, weather, and geology, how these things work together to make ‘nature’.  

  Ages 6-12

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• Data in Nature: Water Quality

  • When
    08/15/2025
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    9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    UT Gardens, Knoxville (South Greenhouse Room 124)
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Discover techniques to collect and analyze data with students!

  •Teachers of all grades and subjects are welcome!

  •Find methods to bring math and science out of the classroom and into your schoolyard.

  •Network with other teachers interested in environmental education.

  •Get outside and explore in UT Gardens! In part 2, you can visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park to look at water quality further!

  Presented by: Education Coordinator, Whitney Hale & Park Rangers, Jessie Snow Neeley & Nicole Nadasen

  Location: UT Gardens, Knoxville TN

  The Knox County Board of Education and Knox County Schools do not sponsor or endorse this advertisement or solicitation.

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• Plant Health Monitoring—How YOU Can Help!

  • When
    08/22/2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    SGH 124

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  In a world of global trade and changing climate there are more frequent new threats to plant health, and early detection is the key to successful management. Participating in this workshop will help you to recognize signs of these pests and diseases and to know how to react. Presentations from UT Gardens Interim Director, James Newburn, and Dr. Mihula Gireesh, UTIA Extension Specialist, will cover national, regional, and garden-specific efforts in plant health monitoring. 
  

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