All of our school programs are designed to support teachers and Washington State Learning Standards. Experienced Naturalists help students make meaningful connections by providing hands-on programs that focus on positive outdoor learning experiences.
Field Trips to the Washington Park Arboretum
Registration is open now for 2025-2026 field trips! Use the link below to request a date. Please email us at uwbgeduc@uw.edu if you have any questions.
Financial aid and bus scholarships are available for eligible schools.
Park Packs
Rent a Park Pack and lead your own field trip in the Arboretum. Everything you need for up to 20 students is included.
Virtual Field Trips
Seeds on the Move
Just like us, seeds need certain things to grow, develop, and stay healthy—and sometimes seeds need to move to get those things! Join Teacher Cait on a virtual arboretum adventure where we will move our bodies, dissect seeds, play games, observe seeds, generate hypotheses about their dispersal methods while exploring the Washington Park Arboretum. This may be a video field trip, but we will engage with all learning styles in this varied, energetic, and creative ways.
- Video 1: Meet Teacher Cait, a UW Botanic Gardens Educator, at the Washington Park Arboretum. Find out what an Arboretum even is before living the plant life cycle—starting with a seed!
- Run time 6:37 + pause time
- Video 2: What is a seed? What is its structure? Get the inside scoop on seeds (literally!) by dissecting a seed. Follow along or do it yourself!
- Run time 5:40 + pause time
- Video 3: Reflect on the things that sustain you as an individual. Compare and contrast those things with friends, family, other animals, and plants. Then, get moving with an interactive scavenger hunt—doable from your desk or table…where ever you may be! The items collected on our scavenger will help us formulate hypotheses about the dispersal methods seeds we find around the arboretum use.
- Run time 22:10 + pause time