Students & Teachers | Naples Botanical Garden

Use the Garden as your classroom and join us for a Guided Field Trip! Can’t visit but want to explore the Garden? Our Virtual Field Trips bring the Garden into your classroom.

These standards-based experiences delve into topics like butterfly life cycles, tropical habitats and ecosystems, and beyond. Our sprawling natural areas and beautiful botanical collection can serve as your tools for learning!

For more information, please contact the Education & Visitor Experience Department at education@naplesgarden.org.

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Field Trip Program Options & Registration

Use the Garden as your classroom for your students to grow their knowledge and interest in the natural world. Our field trips are standards-based experiential outdoor-learning opportunities that explore topics like butterfly life cycles, tropical habitats and ecosystems, and beyond. Our sprawling natural areas and beautiful botanical collection can serve as your tools for learning!

View our program options and submit a request for a field trip!

Field Trip Program Options & Registration

Explore Southwest Florida

There’s no place like your backyard, neighborhood, beach or community park to learn more about the region’s habitats!

Mangrove habitats 101 Birding in 6 easy steps What is a littoral zone?

Discover Tropical Plants

Discover all that is wild and wonderful about our region’s plants!

Fungi: friend or foe? Know what you grow The bald cypress tree Plants might bite The magic of soapberries

Let’s Grow! A School, Community, and Home Gardener Network

Beyond field trips, the Garden offers a Teach-the-Teacher model program for starting and maintaining a small, educational garden. Gardening programs offer many benefits to teachers, students, and communities. As outdoor classrooms providing alternative learning, school gardens increase educational equity, giving all children opportunities to excel.

For additional information on programs, please contact the Education & Visitor Experience Department at education@naplesgarden.org.

Let's Grow!

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Looking to expand your knowledge or bolster your teaching? Check out the Garden’s bank of educational videos and blogs!

Naples Botanical Garden YouTube Channel Notes from the Garden