Explorer Tours (Self-Guided Tours)
Our Explorer Tours open up a world of flexible options for local teachers. You, the classroom teacher, lead your own students on an educational experience through our gardens and Nature Discovery Center. Because you are the guide, you can teach your students about science, art, social studies, economics - anything goes!
Shangri La sponsors workshops to make teachers more comfortable leading their own tours through our gardens. After the workshop, teachers are certified to register for an Explorer Tour. If you would like to bring your students for an Explorer Tour, all teachers must attend one of these workshops.
During the workshop, we will provide enough information about plants in our gardens to make teachers comfortable leading their own tour; we will point out our numbered stations throughout the gardens and demonstrate how the correspond to our guidebook; and we will review the logistics of arrival on the day of your Explorer Tour.
Our Explorer Tour Teacher Workshops for the 2011-2012 school year are scheduled for the following dates and times. Please call 409.670.0803 to reserve your space in one of these FREE workshops. Four CPE hours will be provided.
| September 17, 2011 |
8:00am – 12:00pm |
| October 22, 2011 |
8:00am – 12:00pm |
| February 13, 2012 |
8:00am – 12:00pm |
| March 31, 2012 |
8:00am – 12:00pm |
These workshops are FREE. 4 CPE hours.