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 | Primary School ProgramsCHRISTMAS IN THE GARDENS: Experience the Christmas season The following programs are designed to incorporate the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS). They provide an excellent means of teaching across the Domains in an integrated way. Immerse your class in the magical world of a garden where experience-based learning creates connections through gardening, play, the inspiration of story and the child’s imagination. Each program is led by a Royal Botanic Gardens Primary teacher and can be adapted to suit individual group needs. Teacher professional development workshops are also available on request.
PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM PRICES $9.60 per student (includ. GST) $164.00 per class, for small groups (Minimum Charge) Teachers / Adults free (Maximum 8 per class)
SESSION TIMES All programs 1 hour and 45 minutes in duration. 10.15am – 12.00 noon 12.30pm – 2.15pm
FOR BOOKINGS AND FURTHER INFORMATION Melbourne: 9252 2358 Email: edserv@rbg.vic.gov.au
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Royal Botanic Gardens - Melbourne
New Program 2009
Literature Programs Aboriginal Resource Trail Suggestions for special schools
| Royal Botanic Gardens - CranbournePREP to YEAR 6 Conservation Matters Indigenous program - Shared Country Introduction to the Australian Garden Water in a Dry Country Suggestions for the rest of the day
New Program 2009
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Indonesian
A visit to the Gardens provides a stimulating learning context that extends beyond the classroom and is designed to engage students' interest through active involvement. Activities include exploring the many qualities of bamboo, potting a herb to take home and tasting lemongrass or ginger tea.
Teachers Kit (PDF format 2.1MB)
Chinese
Explore the Southern Chinese Collection to see, touch, smell and taste Chinese plants and their products. Hear fascinating stories, try Chinese style brush painting, sip Chinese tea and pot a Chinese plant to take home.
French
Explore the sensory delights of herbs and explore the role they play in French cooking and perfume, looking at potpourri, tisanes, and bouquet garni. Propagate the beginnings of your own French garden and see what's ready to be harvested in the potager! See what inspired the French Impressionists.
Teachers Kit (PDF format 1.5MB)
PREP to YEAR 6 – Cranbourne
Darwin's Garden - New program 2009
Celebrate the legacy and thinking of Charles Darwin, an extraordinary man. Find out more about the big ideas that changed the world like, 'natural selection'. Darwin was a passionate observer fascinated by plants and the world around him. Explore amazing plant behaviour through observation, critical thinking and scientific inquiry. Techniques explored mirror Darwin's own work such as: creating a nature journal, making plant specimens, using microscopes and observing plants in action. Discover the scientist in us all.
Celebrate 200 years since Darwin's birth and 150 years since publication of On the Origin of Species.
Conservation Matters
How can we become active conservationists at a local level and be a part of positive global change? This program provides an authentic hands-on learning experience focusing on Victorian environment issues and providing strategies for action at home.
Experiences include discovery walk, potting up native plant, worm farming and a habitat game.
Teacher Resources
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Sustainable Gardening
Gardening is a productive and creative form of expression. Learn how to be creative while you help conserve our precious resources such as water and support lots of wildlife in your garden.
Experiences include landscape designing with mulch, potting up a plant and worm farming.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Climate Change
Climate change is now accepted as a reality that we have to address globally. Find out what it means for us and what we can do about it individually, in a very positive sense. Take home a drought tolerant, carbon fixing plant, find out how to creatively manage and store water while reflecting on the bigger picture solutions.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Resource List for Climate Change (PDF format 56MB)
Seed to Tree
Plants are really amazing, especially when you explore their role in sustaining and creating the biosphere. Find out how plants function, and pot up a seedling. Discover the huge diversity of plants in Australia and their adaptations to the Australian environment. Experiences include potting up a plant, discovery-walk, observations and sensory exploration of plants.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Explore our wetlands by ponding for water critters and testing the water quality for temperature and turbidity.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Indigenous program - Shared Country
Discover the importance of the environment to the Kulin people and how plants were used for food, fibre, medicine, tools and so on.
Experiences include a discovery walk, examining artefacts and string making using natural fibre.
Aboriginal Resource Trail (PDF format 1.3MB)
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Investigate the creatures we share our bush and wetlands with, exploring how they live and their lifecycles. How do minibeasts help our gardens grow and why do plants attract or repel them?
Experiences include ponding, discovery-walk, animal observations and sensory exploration of plants and water.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Explore the Australian Garden and our native remnant bushland to identify plant communities. Why do plants live in certain places and not others? How are they adapted to coping with dry conditions?
Experiences include a discovery walk and sensory exploration of plants and landscape.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Introduction to the Australian Garden
The Australian Garden is a fantastic opportunity to journey through Australia’s varied landscapes examining the sights, smells and textures of plants from across this land. Experiences include discovery-walk, observations, sensory exploration of plants and landscape and a creative art activity.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Water in a Dry Country
Where has all our water gone and how can we make better use of the water we still have? We look at these problems in a positive and creative way by designing our own mini landscapes with colourful and surprising mulches. This is a great earthy, textural team activity. We also look at how some plants themselves can survive in really tough dry environments.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Scents and Senses
Immerse yourself in sensory bliss. Explore the Australian Garden with all of your senses in a manner that will delight, excite and surprise you with its depth and intensity. Smell and taste the flavours of Australia, see the clear, strong light illuminating our landscapes and hear the sounds hidden by our everyday rush. Above all, feel more than the textures of a time worn land, feel the excitement of a special place.
Experiences include leaf rubbing, potpourri and bushfood tasting.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
Australian Garden Christmas
Celebrate Christmas and the end of the year in the new and exciting Australian Garden. Discover our Australian Christmas plants, make a gumnut art Christmas decoration and potpourri.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 33.8KB)
SUGGESTION FOR SPECIAL SCHOOLS – Melbourne
With a sense of adventure and weaving their own magic, children meet the plants who live in the garden and find out what they have to say! Students create crowns with plant material collected in the Children’s Garden and make pot pourri in the Herb Garden. A sensory focused exploration of the Gardens.
VELS Program Guide (PDF format 27.1KB)
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE REST OF THE DAY - Cranbourne
- Wander up to Trig Point Lookout to take in the amazing views from the mountains to the sea. On a clear day you can see forever (Mt Macedon, the You Yangs, Phillip Island and the City).
- Cool your feet wading in the marked section of the Rockpool Waterway.
- Climb on redgum Hortasaurus and slide down his big red tongue in the Childrens Backyard.
- Discover the fossils and footprints in the shady Desert Discovery Camp sand pit.
- See if you can work out the answers to Grubby's questions on the cool Grubby Map .
The Royal Botanic Gardens appreciates your understanding and commitment to ensuring that the visiting children gain the most from the outdoor Gardens experience. For session management and for the child's enjoyment and safety we request that whilst the actual early childhood program is operating a maximum of 8 parents and no siblings participate in the group. |
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne incorporates the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne and the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology.