World-class Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden shows you how to create a science-based family tour!
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2024-07-31
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Located in the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, the Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden is known as a world-class interactive learning center. Since its opening in the fall of 2013, the Dallas Arboretum has welcomed nearly 700,000 formally educated students and over 1 million visitors.
Pre-operational development reservation
Simultaneous design and science communication content development
The Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden provides a variety of learning experiences and interactive games for children aged 6 to 12. Designers hope to arouse children's curiosity and initiative to explore through combining on-site scenarios with experiments and games, thereby cultivating their interest in science and nature.
The entire children's adventure garden covers 8 acres (approximately 32,375 square meters), with over 150 interactive exhibits and activities related to science, nature, environment, and art, and 17 indoor and outdoor learning rooms. Each learning room focuses on a specific theme of life, earth, and environmental science issues. The entire garden has over 150 interactive exhibits.
The site is defined as a children's adventure garden, meaning that the content must meet certain scientific standards and educational significance. The initial design required extensive research on relevant cases of children's gardens, considering the needs of different age groups to select appropriate teaching content, and then developing learning rooms and educational game content. During this period, staff from the Dallas Arboretum, school teachers, and some experts and professors were invited to evaluate the feasibility of the content.
This shows that design and operation must proceed simultaneously to ensure the effective use of the site in subsequent operations.
Establishment of science communication in the site environment
Developing recreational activities within nature
The Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden can be considered a highly "readable" science book, except here we don't learn through reading, but through games to gradually uncover the scientific secrets behind those natural things. Let's enter this magical garden with curiosity!
Entrance Plaza
Entering from the wrought-iron butterfly gate, you will see an interactive fountain plaza that can accommodate 200 people. Considering the holding of large-scale events in the future, a circular theater with awnings is also set up here.
First Adventure
Passing through the front plaza, you can reach a play area geared towards younger children. Many giant animal installations are placed here, such as butterflies, giant ants, caterpillars, as well as streams, sandpits, mazes, and flat tree hollows, enriching the scene and gameplay of the site. During play, children can gain an initial understanding and knowledge of nature.
Plants Area Alive
This is an activity area for kindergarten children, helping them understand how plants survive and grow, and learn about the internal structure and components of plants.
At a glance, giant potted plants are placed everywhere. These potted plants are about 4 meters high, some are opened to reveal the root system and internal structure, and some are laid down to become an outdoor natural classroom.
There are also enlarged pistils, etc. These phenomena that we cannot observe with our eyes in daily life are magnified several times here. Children can observe plants from the perspective of insects and can also trigger interactive switches to understand the structure and secrets of flower growth.
Nature is an encyclopedia, containing a wealth of knowledge, such as scientific knowledge, mathematical knowledge, and aesthetic principles. Next to the potted plants, there is an interactive experimental area for understanding natural knowledge.
Interactive devices made using diagrams, shapes, and structural principles allow children to discover the scientific mysteries in nature through observation and hands-on operation.
Pure Energy
Clean energy is a major measure for environmental protection, reducing air and water pollution, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and having a lower negative impact on human health and ecosystems.
The clean energy interactive area showcases common forms of energy, such as wind energy, solar energy, and the gravitational potential energy of water. Here, children can learn about clean energy knowledge through device interaction.
Hydropower: Energy that uses water flow, water pressure, or tidal movement to generate electricity.
Wind energy: Energy that uses wind power to convert wind energy into electricity.
Solar energy: Energy that uses solar radiation to convert light energy into electricity or heat energy. Solar panels and solar thermal systems are common ways to utilize solar energy.
Texas Native Wetlands
In this wetland covering approximately 2880 square meters, children can observe the living environment of plants and animals, thereby understanding the value of the ecosystem.
Living Cycles
A decomposition diagram of the plant life cycle, from planting, seedlings, growth, flowering, fruiting, to death, and the different blooms of plants in the four seasons are also visible.
Earth Cycles
Understanding the earth's rotation, learning the decomposition process of the life cycle and the precipitation cycle.
Amazing Secret Garden
A garden maze with exploration tasks. Clues and questions will be set in the maze. During the process, children need to observe, interact, and collect information to find the answers, and finally they can exchange rewards.
Exploration Center
An indoor and outdoor combined open space. Indoors is an 845-square-meter area with display and activity functions. An upper roof garden is built on the upper level of the space, which provides an outdoor course venue in addition to viewing.
Incredible Edible Garden
This area features a variety of edible vegetables, grains, and interactive devices. Through play, children learn about food sources and their related nutritional and economic value.
Texas Sky Walk
This is a high-altitude walkway extending in a "treetop" shape. It is the highest point of the venue, offering a bird's-eye view of the entire park. It allows for quick navigation to desired destinations.
The high-altitude walkway also leads to a natural habitat for rest and play.
Sustainable Operation Plan
Sustainable operation is key to the venue's success.
Whether it's the science and education interactive facilities, the natural ecological environment, or the reserved activity and teaching spaces, the venue has planted high-quality "seeds" for the children's nature exploration garden. However, how these seeds "grow" depends on subsequent operational cultivation to truly achieve effective connection between people and nature.
The Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden offers a wide range of operational content, with new offerings constantly added to meet the diverse needs of families, such as:
(1) Academic Lectures
Regularly held academic lectures invite experts and scientists from various fields to share knowledge related to botany, ecology, entomology, and environmental protection.
(2) Creative Workshops and Art Activities
Children can participate in activities such as painting, crafts, planting, and decorating.
(3) Nature Study Courses
Nature-related exploration activities, such as insect observation, plant identification, and forest exploration.
(4) Festive Activities
Various themed activities are held according to different seasons and festivals.
(5) Private Events
The venue also provides private event services, such as meetings, speeches, birthday parties, rehearsal dinners, luncheons, weddings, or other private events.
These activities not only allow children and parents to continuously participate and experience "natural growth," but also cultivate long-term engagement for the venue.
Science education should be natural, and it is precisely because of this "naturalness" that a simple and easy-to-understand approach is needed to allow people to naturally access and acquire knowledge. If the venue is the hardware, then the operational content is the software; the two complement each other.
The Zhi Zhi Wu Science Park has also implemented similar practices. With plants as its main focus and science education as its core system, the Zhi Zhi Wu Science Park incorporates venue environment, performance programs, game activities, and educational courses to create a comprehensive science education product system. This provides sustainable content output for the main brand, continuously and effectively establishing a connection between people, the venue, and nature, and achieving effective transformation.
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