Youth Education Program

Taltree offers interpretive hikes on the arboretum grounds. Trained guides discuss topics such as geology of the region, wildlife, habitats, ecology, horticulture/arboriculture and others. Hikes goes through our prairie, woods, and wetland areas discussing what is happening at that time and relating that to the particular needs of the group.

We can handle up to 100 students at a time. We divide the students into groups of approximately 20 or as individual classes. Hikes last 1 to 1 1/2 hours and cost $4/person ($1/person for Taltree members).

Learn more about Taltree Educator's Day. It will be held on August 15, 2006, 10:00am TO 2:00pm.

Special activities using Project Learning Tree kits can be incorporated when requested and include the following:

1. Activity: Get in Touch With Trees!
   • Age: K-6
   • Subject: Tree identification
2. Activity: Deadly Links
   • Age: K-8
   • Subject: Food Chains
3. Activity: Web of Life
   • Age: K-8
   • Subject: Interconnectedness of species
4. Activity: Trees as Habitats
   • Age: K-8
   • Subject: Microhabitats
5. Activity: Three Cheers for Trees/Looking At Leaves
   • Age: K-6
   • Subject: Trees
6. Activity: Wetland Soils in Living Color
   • Age: K-8
   • Subject: Wetlands
7. Activity: Fallen Log
   • Age: K-8
   • Subject: Decomposition/Life Cycle
8. Activity: Signs of Fall
   • Age: K-6
   • Subject: Pigmentation and chlorophyll
9. Activity: Life on the Edge/Every Tree for Itself
   • Age: K-8
   • Subject: Competition among species
10. Activity: Birds & Worms
    • Age: K-6
    • Subject: Natural camouflage/ Predator-prey relationship

For more information or to schedule a hike please contact us at 219-462-0025 or info@taltree.org