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They will organise new educational projects and of social awareness in the Real Botanic Garden of Madrid

19/05/2014

19 May 2014

The Community of Madrid and the Real Botanic Garden of the capital of Spain will set up a new educational program that will allow the realisation of visits guided to the botanist as well as the exit of the workshops and courses botanic workshops to other centres out of the enclosure of the own garden between the months of May and October.

It treats of a new formative project that carries out the Council of Environingingment and Ordination of the Territory, that are complementary to the programs that develops from the Network of Centres of Environingingmental Education to promote the active and responsible participation to sustainable practices, based in a rational use and solidario of the resources.

The programming elaborated of conjoint form includes thematic visits guided in weekends to the Real Botanic Garden so much in Spanish as in English. In the case of the Spanish the visits will realizar Saturdays and Sundays. The Saturdays the visits they will be monographic on distinct thematic, enhancing distinct appearances of the Garden in each moment of the year, as 'the Iberian forestrys', 'toxic plants' or 'the Garden in summer'. The Sundays will realizar a general visit to the terraces and greenhouses of the Garden and the visits in English will realizar twice a month.

Botanic workshops in hospitable classrooms

Also it will include a program of botanic workshops with activities that pretend to approach the Workshops of the Botanist to school centres that, by some reason, have difficulties in attending to places like the Real Botanic Garden to realizar activities related with the nature, for example hospitable classrooms and centres of Special Education.

Besides will carry out Workshops as 'The Botanist in the Centres of environingingmental education', that will be given by educators of the Real Botanic Garden, using the materials that usually use in the Garden. Equally they will prepare a series of courses headed to adults that will allow to deepen in the thematic of the plants or are related with the study and the approach to the nature like the botanic drawing or the photography (course of identification of plants, course of introduction to the aquatic plants, course of identification of funguses, course of botanic drawing and course of photography).