Dear Colleague:

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is happy to be a part of Education Days at Kennywood Park this year.

Plants play an important part in all of our lives, whether we realize it or not, from providing food, clothing and medicine, to enhancing our living spaces. Each year Kennywood Park plants beautiful, colorful annuals and perennials that really add to the overall experience at the park. We would like to help your students become more aware of these plants and the benefits they provide at the park and in their lives.

We have created a worksheet that your students can complete in about 30 minutes while they are in the park. This worksheet will help them to realize the planning and thought that goes into the planting and maintenance of these plants and how they make Kennywood a nicer place. The worksheet will also provide some basic information on Integrated Pest Management and its role in a public place like Kennywood. (This will help you to meet state standard 4.5.7 for Environment and Ecology.) I hope your students enjoy completing this worksheet, as they become more aware of their surroundings.

Sincerely,,

Marjorie A. Radebaugh
Director of Education
Radebaughm@phipps.pgh.pa.us
www.phipps.conservatory.org

Teachers please use the below links to download the worksheet pdfs
Student Worksheet • Teacher Answers