The organization has redesigned the Career Discovery website and launched Tools for Teachers.
The launch is part of ASLA’s outreach for National Landscape Architecture Month.
The Career Discovery website, aimed at students in middle school and high school, explains what a landscape architect does and how to become one.
With a background that features the evolution of Columbus Circle in New York City from sketch to reality, the website shows how landscape architects creatively solve complex urban and environmental issues through design.
Columbus Circle was redesigned by OLIN, a landscape architecture firm, and received a 2006 ASLA Honor Award in the General Design category.
The website also includes two videos—”Personal Paths” and “Why Become a Landscape Architect?“—featuring landscape architects and designers on why landscape architecture is the perfect career for art- and science-oriented students.
Tools for Teachers is a new education hub for K-12 teachers. It features free classroom activities that will inspire lesson plans and start classroom dialogues about landscape architecture. It includes links to all of ASLA’s educational resources, including:
- Hands-on classroom activities aligned to national teaching standards
- The Roof is Growing! green roof education program
- Designing Our Future: Sustainable Landscapes pages offering educational animations, case studies and K-12 classroom activities
- A link to a reservation form to visit the green roof on ASLA’s Washington, D.C. headquarters.
