Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden for Schools
We offer many ways for schools and students to use our Garden to explore topics in Hawaiian studies, Hawaiian natural history, conservation, and horticulture. See the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden educational guide for details on our programs, including Hawai‘i Content and Performance Standards benchmarks.
Visiting the Garden
Teachers or students can call or e-mail to arrange a class visit to the Garden. Classes can take part in tours, service learning, or workshops on their visits to the Garden.
Most class tours take 1.5 hours, but a longer tour is available. Service learning visits and workshops take 1 hour or more—some classes spend an entire school day at the Garden. There are picnic tables and shady trees for schools who want to stay for lunch.
Fees
1.5 hour tour-- $3.00 per student.
Teachers
and chaperones free
2.5 hour tour--$6.00 per student
Service
learning—free
Workshops—call for details
Payment can be made by purchase order or by check or cash on the day of the visit.
Thanks to generous support from the Bretzlaff Foundation, there is no fee for students from Title One schools.
Outreach to your classroom.
Greenwell Garden can bring science and culture to you classroom with an outreach visit. We provide hands-on instruction in Hawaiian traditional practices from pounding poi to making kapa. We can teach classes about seeds and how to plant them. In another program, we can help classes or schools start their own Hawaiian gardens.
There is no fee for many of these visits as they are supported by the Education through Cultural and Historical Institutions (ECHO) and the Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts Program (NHCAP).
After school program
Ho‘okupu, an after-school horticulture program meets at the Garden on Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-3:30 . The program is open to students in grades 4-8. Students learn how to propagate native plants and care for them in the nursery and in the garden grounds. Some students work on school projects in ethnobotany or natural science and meet school community service requirements.
For more information about any of these programs, call the Garden at 808-323-3318 or email to agg@bishopmuseum.org