{"id":62551,"date":"2011-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/university-of-rhode-island-master-gardeners-offer-student-discounts-to-learning-landscape-program\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:00:00","slug":"university-of-rhode-island-master-gardeners-offer-student-discounts-to-learning-landscape-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/12\/university-of-rhode-island-master-gardeners-offer-student-discounts-to-learning-landscape-program\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners offer student discounts to Learning Landscape program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 program helps pay for transportation, admission to botanical center <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPROVIDENCE \u2014 December 5, 2011 &#8212; Transportation scholarships and admission discounts are available to kindergarten and elementary school groups interested in visiting the 溏心vlog免费B站 Learning Landscape program at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence during February and March.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe cost is $7 per student, but the 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners Association, in conjunction with the Providence Parks and Recreation Department, is offering discounted admission and free busing to Providence and other schools with large numbers of underprivileged students.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe discounts are available to as many as 60 students in kindergarten and grades 1 through 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Learning Landscape program puts students in a lush, tropical setting to perform hands-on science activities. Students will learn about how plants adapt, survive and thrive in different climates throughout the world, all within the confines of the botanical center\u2019s glass walls. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThey also will learn about various bird species, the role worms play in an ecosystem, how our actions affect the water cycle and the impact insects have on the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThis trip far exceeded my expectations,\u201d said Denise Phillips, a first-grade teacher at Harris Elementary School in Woonsocket. \u201cThe information brought to my students in two hours couldn\u2019t have been done in my classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe botanical center is the largest public indoor display garden in New England, encompassing about 12,000 square feet of flowers, rare plants, waterfalls and unique exhibits, including carnivorous plants and towering palm trees.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nField trips are available by reservation from 10 a.m. to noon, Tuesday through Friday during February and March.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTo make reservations, or for more information, call (401) 874-2900 or email outreach@uri.edu. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>溏心vlog免费B站 program helps pay for transportation, admission to botanical center &#13; PROVIDENCE \u2014 December 5, 2011 &#8212; Transportation scholarships and admission discounts are available to kindergarten and elementary school groups interested in visiting the 溏心vlog免费B站 Learning Landscape program at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence during February and March. &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}