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

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.

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