Description Wild About Plants is a botanical adventure that engages children and families in an exploration of the plants that are a part of everyday life. Based on the Breaking Ground Project, a collaboration between The Brooklyn Children's Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Wild About Plants lets families touch, smell, magnify, build, re-build, watch, and listen to plants, uncovering what they do for people and what people can do for them. Visitors are invited to explore the home of a fictional character, science enthusiast Flora Wild. Ms. Wild's pantry includes a wide range of plants used to make medicines, toiletries, and first-aid products, while her workroom reveals how plants become household items. In the livingroom, visitors can watch videos in which her neighbors talk about their plant-related hobbies.
Kids see the underground root systems of trees and then an aerial view of plants in the city.
Together, as part of a game, families plan a plant-friendly city. A puppet theater invites them to put on a play to explore how we are all part of a community of living things. Plant Discovery Modules provide a place for hands-on experiences with plants and people. A Wild About Plants electronic resource offers further information on the traveling exhibition. The pages were developed by the Brooklyn Children's Museum in collaboration with ASTC with support from the National Science Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.