At Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Ontario, Karin is responsible for designing, developing, promoting and delivering interactive K-12 curriculum linked school programs (English and French) as well as adult programs to a variety of venues via videoconference (H.323 and software-based FieldTripZoom).
Are you looking for a way for your students to reach beyond the classroom walls? We use videoconferencing to interact with students and explore plants and their importance to the environment and in our daily lives. Discover why are we Canada's biodiversity hotspot. What are we doing to restore, monitor and maintain these ecosystems? Do you want to discover what makes an insect an insect or how they interact with plants and other animals? What are some amazing adaptations that plants have to survive? All of these questions and many more can be explored with our interactive videoconference programs in both English and French. Learn how easy it is to connect and take advantage of the technology available in most classrooms to broaden what your students have access to while learning about their natural world.
This is not to take the place of going outside; this is to inspire you and your students to go outside and explore your own local natural area.