UNION BOTANY

At Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we have taken a novel approach to teaching botany at the high school level.  Although we cover all the subject matter a typical botany class would, the class is as much about sustainability as it is botany.   We learn through executing projects to improve sustainability and try to integrate as much as possible into the community and have had organic farmers, florists, horticulturists, landscapers, garden centers, bonsai masters, heirloom seed specialists, landscape designers, and others all visit with the class or host field trips.  For the coming school year, approximately 300 students have enrolled in this elective class, filling ten different sections of Botany.