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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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Hear from our expert Horticulture Team to get some tips and tricks on growing food, flowers and plants in your garden!

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Growing food, flowers and plants for your health and wellbeing!

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Growing food, flowers and plants for your health and wellbeing!

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Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of SA

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Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of SA

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Planting Tomatoes at Adelaide Botanic Garden

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A general guide on what you might like to sow and when to sow it, in your own Kitchen Garden at school, or home!

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Suitable for Early Years learners

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Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden Learning Program

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Bring your learners for fun learning at the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden in Adelaide Botanic Garden! Book Excursion Here This exciting program has…

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Suitable for Year 3 - Year 7

Explore soil, seeds and seasonal produce while nurturing healthy bodies, minds and connection to nature

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Book Excursion Here Years 3 - 7
Kitchen Garden Kids is a hands‑on, outdoor learning experience.

Students dig into the science of growing food while nurturing healthy bodies and minds. Through planting, harvesting and exploring soil and compost systems, students develop practical gardening skills and a deeper understanding of where food comes from. The program supports curiosity, collaboration and wellbeing, finishing with shared reflection and a calming cup of garden‑grown tea.

Students rotate through three interactive garden experiences, learning how seeds grow, why soil health matters, and how seasonal produce supports healthy living. Sensory engagement is woven throughout, encouraging students to smell, touch, taste and observe the garden as a living system.

Plant seeds to take back to school (or home), building a shared growing

Duration: 60 - 75 minutes

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Book Excursion Here Years 3 - 7 Kitchen Garden Kids is a hands‑on, outdoor learning experience. Students dig into the science of growing food...

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Providing opportunities for learners to grow food, flowers and plants is great for educating about where food comes from, helps instil healthy habits and can impact wellbeing in powerful and lasting ways.

Gardening invites children to slow down, use their senses and engage in purposeful, hands-on learning. Planting a seed, caring for it, and watching it grow builds patience, responsibility and a strong sense of achievement.

Working with soil, plants and seeds can help students develop self regulation skills, teamwork and social skills and a deeper appreciation for the natural cycles that sustain us while strengthening both personal wellbeing and their sense of belonging to the world around them.

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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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Learning programs around growing food, flowers and plants creates an authentic interdisciplinary learning environment where students explore science, sustainability, culture, mathematics, 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 learning experiences out in the garden:

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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