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Learning at the Botanic Gardens looks like....

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Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of SA

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What does learning look like at Adelaide Botanic Garden?

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These resources have been designed to support self-guided learning to encourage connection to nature and allow for moments of mindfulness. Use them at the Botanic Gardens or in your own school or community!

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For the nature detectives! Work your way through these observations, gather evidence and record your findings to discover more about how plants, animals, people and places are all connected!

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Designed for Years 3 - 7

Become expert Nature Noticers! Encouraging curiosity, nature connection and exploration of the natural world using observations, touch, scent and sound.

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Book excursion here Years 3 - 7 Nature Noticers invites students to slow down, tune in, and experience nature with all their senses. Through…

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Start your bird watching adventure at the Botanic Gardens!

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At first glance, wetland birds can look very similar. You'll need to practice your observation and noticing skills to become a bird ID expert and figure out who is who!

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Providing opportunities for students to slow down and truly observe nature helps spark curiosity, strengthen wellbeing, and build a deeper sense of self. When we notice the small details, patterns in leaves, a pollinator visiting the garden, changing light or seasonal shifts, we start asking questions, making connections, and thinking like scientists and storytellers.

These moments of mindful observation also support calm and emotional regulation, offering a gentle reset from busy routines. By engaging their senses and attention, learners develop confidence in their own thinking, a stronger awareness of their place in the world, and a growing sense of wonder about the natural environment.

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This project was made possible by generous support from the A Private Philanthropic Organisation and the Department for Education.

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The Botanic Gardens Education team partnered with expert Psychologists and Nature Therapists from Connected Self across this project. Working together to co-design resources and workshops to provide meaningful connection to nature based on findings from peer reviewed research and years of nature based wellbeing delivery and practise.

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We do this by recruiting qualified, talented, inspirational and committed people and supporting them to work with you to identify the outcomes that you want to achieve. Our people then employ evidence based and innovative approaches to help you achieve these outcomes in a sustainable way.

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A guide to support educators in connecting bird watching across curriculum

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Learning programs where learners are able to spend time outdoors, observing nature creates an authentic interdisciplinary learning environment where students can increase their curiousity and connection to nature through exploration of concepts connecting to science, sustainability, culture, mathematics, art, design and wellbeing through real-world, hands-on experiences.

Below is a list of links across a variety of curriculum areas that can be applied to these nature based learning experiences:

Health and Physical Education

Making healthy and safe choices

Making active choices

Investigate different ways of moving their bodies

Science

Inquiry Skills

Asking questions and making predictions

Planning and conducting investigations

Recording and representing observation

Biological Sciences

Living and non-living things

Life cycles (seeds, flowers, insects, birds)

Interactions between living things and their environment

HASS (Geography)

Observing and describing natural features of places

Identifying how environments support living things

Considering how people interact with and care for environments

Interpreting, analysing and evaluating data

Communicating observations and pesenting descriptions

Developing evidence based conclusions

Mathematics

Measurements

Modelling problems

Statistics

Patterns and symmetry

Data representation

Probability

English

Topic specific vocabulary

Creating informative, reflective or emotive texts

Design and Technologies

Food and fibre productions

Technologies and society

Investigation and defining

Investigating, generating and creating opportunities for designed solutions

Evaluation ideas, process and solutions

Collaborating and managing

General Capabilities

Critical and Creative Thinking – asking questions and exploring ideas

Literacy – recording observations in journals

Numeracy – measuring, counting and identifying patterns and collecting data

Sustainability – understanding ecosystems and caring for environments

Personal and Social Capability – reflecting on wellbeing in nature

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Join Lucy as she helps you get ready for your visit to Adelaide Botanic Garden! Learn how to use your senses to become curious garden adventurers, discover how being outdoors can help wriggly feelings disappear, and learn how to explore a botanic garden safely and kindly.

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Rosellas and Lorikeets are both bright, colourful birds that love trees, flowers and fruit! Use your observation skills to discover what makes each bird unique!