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Learning at the Botanic Gardens looks like....

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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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Photography Scavenger Hunt Teacher Resource Guide

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Photography Scavenger Hunt Teacher Resource Guide

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A guide to support educators in connecting nature photography across curriculum

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Outside In_Nature Photography Scavenger Hunt Teacher Resource

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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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Explore Adelaide Botanic Garden, choose a tree and write a story from its perspective. What memories or knowledge could it share?

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Creative experiences like art-making, storytelling and imaginative play that take place surrounded by nature help learners build a personal connection to their environment by encouraging them to respond emotionally, not just intellectually.

When we draw what we notice, we create characters inspired by plants, or write stories about the natural world with empathy and understanding. Deepening observation skills and beginning to see nature as something that we are a part of, not just living alongside of.

These creative processes also support wellbeing by providing a calming, expressive outlet for thoughts and feelings, helping students build confidence, curiosity and a sense of belonging.

By blending nature with creativity, students can form lasting memories and a deeper appreciation for the environment which is shown to support both emotional wellbeing more pro-environmental behaviours as connection to nature increases.

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Designed for Years 2 - 7

Explore, create and advocate! Finding inspiration in nature’s sounds, colours and materials to create artworks

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Book Excursion Here Years 2 - 7 Budding Artists invites students to explore how nature inspires creativity across sound, colour and form. …

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Use scans of real aquatic plants and turn their shapes into fun doodles. Discover characters, creatures, or underwater worlds. Let your imagination lead and see what you can create! There are no wrong answers, just playful thinking and creative fun, this is a perfect brain break, wind down, or quick task to help calm and reset busy minds!

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Outside In_Imagination Workout Aquatic Plants

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Photography is an wonderful way to practise mindfulness and notice small details in nature. There are no “perfect” photos, just curious eyes and calm moments. Take your time, explore gently, and capture what makes you feel present.

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Outside In_Nature Photography Scavenger Hunt

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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!

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Look closely and draw what you see. This activity is all about careful observation and capturing shape, texture, patterns, and details like botanists do in the field.

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This project was made possible by generous support from 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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Teach from experience and take time for yourself to slow down, connect and respond to your surroundings with our variety of Nature Based Wellbeing workshops.

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Nature Based Wellbeing at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium are unforgettable experiences for the soul and senses, and will equip you with life-long skills to nourish your wellbeing and relationship with nature.These workshops can be delivered as part of the Therapeutic Horticulture program and customised for a particular group, inquire by contacting bgshevents@sa.gov.au for more information.

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Learning programs that incorporate art, stories and creative expression create rich interdisciplinary learning environments where students can explore ideas, emotions and connections to the world around them. Through imaginative, hands-on experiences, students engage with literacy, science, culture, visual arts, design and wellbeing, using creativity to communicate their observations, tell stories and deepen their understanding of people, places and nature.

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

The Arts

Explore make comparisons about how artists, including First Nations Australians, use their work to tell stories about different plants, animals and environment and connection to and responsibility for Country/Place

Developing skills using different mediums and art forms inspired by nature

Creating and making work that communicates idea and/or meaning around environmental issues and concepts

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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