It’s the holiday season! We love table decor over here. Get creative with your Thanksgiving tablescape this year. Find objects that inspire you and build your decor around it. Think Nature! Get outside on a nature walk and pick up pine cones, nuts, seeds, grasses, leaves and branches – they are everywhere this time of year and it’s a great way to bring fall inside for your Thanksgiving dinner or for the next big event you are hosting.
As a board member of Digital Farm Collective I was very proud of our fundraiser last Sunday night. Set in the lovely home of Aric Mei, owner of Parlor. The amazing dinner was created by Chef Aaron Chamberlain, the wine was provided by Dos Cabezas, the beer and coffee from Cartel, and tequila offered by 3 Amigos.
I had the pleasure of being asked to do all of the decoration and table-scapes. It turned out so lovely I had to share some photos.
If you are interested in learning more about Digital Farm Collective or to Donate to this amazing project Click HERE.
After we offered a talk on how to integrate STEAM into curriculum at a garden at the APGA Conference HERE my colleagues and I at the Desert Botanical Garden were ready to take the next step. We had been beta testing the STEAM curriculum we developed focusing on biomimicry. We partnered with The Art Resource Center to develop post tour kits to take back to the classroom to further develop knowledge and skills about STEAM.
Below are the tours now offered by the DBG you can visit the DBG education page to book a tour based on STEAM, download the corresponding education standards and the pre and post tools.
Nature as a Problem Solver: A STEM Curriculum
2 hours, suggested for grades 1-4
Students are introduced to an exciting new way to look at nature as inspiration for solving human problems or biomimicry. Observation and experimentation with plants and works of art will encourage discussion, wonder, and creativity. Take-Away Post Visit Activity and Materials to be completed in classroom will be provided by the Desert Botanical Garden.
Solutions Inspired by Nature: A STEM Curriculum
2 hours, suggested for grades 5-8
Students are introduced to an exciting new way to look at nature as inspiration for solving human problems or biomimicry. Observation and experimentation with plants and works of art will encourage discussion, wonder, and creativity. Take-Away Post Visit Activity and Materials to be completed in classroom will be provided by the Desert Botanical Garden.
At Laboratory5 Inc. We bring together all elements of STEAM and tie them up into a package to promote the work each individual is doing in their fields to celebrate this work. We produce experiences so that those unfamiliar with the glorious, quirky, nerdy, geeky qualities of all areas of STEAM can be explored as an adventure to explain these fields.
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