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Garden Earth Naturalists Science Night Kit
 

The Garden Earth Naturalist (GEN) Science Night kit "helps children (grades 3-6) understand their school site ecosystem, value the eco-services provided by their ecosystem.  The kit contains 25 hands-on science activities that address concepts such as Pollination, Soil Production and Recycling, Biodiversity and Water Purification. The GEN kits originated from a partnership between the the The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, The Georgia Museum of Natural History, Georgia 4-H and the Georgia Partnership in Science and Math (PRISM).

Your students can enhance their learning by participating in a Garden Earth Naturalist Family Science Night. What is Family Science Night? A Family Science Night is an evening program of Science activities in which students and their parents can work together on simple, age-appropriate, inquiry-based science activities.

The program uses readily available, low-cost materials. It is a great way to encourage active participation by parents and students.

 

What is Family Science Night?

A Family Science Night is an evening program of science activities in which students and their parents can work together on simple, age-appropriate, inquiry-based science activities. The program uses readily available, low-cost materials.  It is a great way to encourage active participation by parents and students.
 

 

Master List of Contents for items included in the kit.

Terms of the Contract for borrowing the kit.

 

To check out a Science Night Kit contact

Susan Meyers 
Confederate Hall Historical and Environmental Education Center
Stone Mountain Memorial Association

Stone Mountain Park
Phone (404) 388-8228 cell

 

 

Other sites that have the GEN kits include:

Fortson 4-H Center

999 Fortson Road, Hampton, GA 30228

Phone: 770-946-3276

Contact: Susie Greer sgreer4h@uga.edu

 

Chattahoochee Flint Georgia Youth Science and Technology Center

Georgia Southwestern State University

GSW-School of Education,

800 Wheatley Street, Americus, GA 31709

Phone: 229-931-2167

Contact: Lynn Larson  lpl@canes.gsw.edu

 

Georgia Museum of Natural History,

University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Phone: 706-542-2280

Contact:  Carol Hoffman  hoffman@uga.edu

 

Other kits available for checkout:

 

Our Shared Forest Science Night Kit

Monarch Box

EnviroScape® Wetlands Unit

 

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