WRITING SAMPLE: Discovery Garden,
Brooklyn Botanic Garden

[introductory text]
Welcome to the Discovery Garden

What can kids do here?

• Be curious scientists
• Touch and smell plants
• Create toys out of natural objects
• Enjoy nature
• Hide. Pretend. Explore.
• Get dirty!

Children are natural scientists; they learn by doing.
So let their interests and curiosity guide your activities.

[sample 1]
What do butterflies do at flowers?

They sip a sweet juice called nectar.

Watch a butterfly closely.
You may see it uncurl its special “tongue.”
The tongue works like a straw for drinking nectar.