Schools Program
Bring your class to the High Line!
Request a guided field trip.
LEARN ABOUT NATURE, HISTORY, OR DESIGN WITH THREE PROGRAM OPTIONS:
How's It Growing?—Native Plants on the High Line
Students learn about biodiversity, native species, and New York City's ecosystem, and make their own High Line Field Guide to take home.
Trains, Shipping, & Cargo Zipping—History on the High Line
Students go on a hunt to uncover the history of Manhattan's shipping industry, and take home a special scavenger hunt booklet.
Abandoned to Embraced—Designing a Park on the High Line
How did the High Line's original landscape inspire the park's design? Students find remnants from the site’s abandoned past and draw postcards to take home.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Field trips are 75-minutes and feature hands-on activities that support NYS Learning Standards. Each visit is accompanied with pre- and post-visit activities to extend the learning opportunities in the classroom. Programs are available for grades 2 through 7 only.
The cost is $70.00 for groups of 15 or more, $35.00 for groups of less than 15. Adults join the fun for free. Financial assistance is available.
Guided High Line Field Trips are available October 4 — November 17, 2011 and March 20 — June 21, 2012.
Request a guided field trip.
For more information, please contact High Line School and Youth Program Manager Emily Pinkowitz at emily.pinkowitz@thehighline.org.
Curriculum Guides Available for Download
PS 11 Summer Field TripFriends of the High Line also offers five new curricula in different subject areas related to the High Line, for grades two through seven.
THE FIVE CURRICULUM GUIDES ARE:
- A social studies curriculum guide: What can the High Line teach us about community activism?
- An English language arts curriculum guide: What can the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" teach us about Chelsea?
- A science curriculum guide: What can the High Line teach us about forces?
- A math and arts curriculum guide: What can the High Line teach us about park design?
- An arts curriculum guide: What can the High Line teach us about the Machine Aesthetic?
These curriculum guides are available for download by grade level by clicking the links below (each link contains the above 5 curriculum guides for the corresponding grade levels).
These lessons are meant to be used as a guide to help you and your students begin to explore different aspects of the High Line. Each individual teacher is the best judge of what is appropriate for his or her students and we encourage you to alter the material to best suit your needs and the needs of your students.
Education program at the Hudson GuildAbout the Schools Program
The High Line Schools Program has long been an important part of our community outreach. It started in 2001 and has been utilized by the New York City Laboratory School for Collaborative Studies since 2005. The Schools Program also includes an ongoing partnership with an after-school program at the Hudson Guild, a community center in the neighborhood serving lower-income residents.
Friends of the High Line's curriculum guides were developed in collaboration with Jane Cowan, a specialist in built-environment education. This curriculum guide follows New York State's education learning standards and feature 28 lesson plans that use the High Line to explore social studies, science, English language arts, math, and art. Using the High Line curriculum guide, we have been able to bring the High Line into the academic lives of many of our neighborhood schools' seventh- and eighth-grade classes beginning in 2006, and this year, we are expanding it to grades two through seven.
Friends of the High Line periodically offers training sessions for educators to learn how the High Line can support and enhance their students' classroom learning.
If you would like to receive more information about upcoming opportunities for educators and schools, please contact Emily Pinkowitz, School & Youth Program Manager, at (212) 206-9922 or emily.pinkowitz@thehighline.org.
Support
The High Line Schools Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support comes from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, HSBC USA, N.A., and Johnson Family Foundation.
