Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia Schools Education

📣Attention Adelaide educators!📣

Check out below what's coming up in Teacher Professional Development.

🍁Trail Day
Join our expert Botanical Educators as they lead you through three of our most popular trails, as they would be delivered to students; the Adaptations, Pollination and Sensory trails.
🍁Tuesday 23 April: 9am - 1pm

💧Water in the Curriculum
During this hands-on workshop you'll hear from SA Water, Green Adelaide and the State Herbarium and learn how to work water into your classroom with engaging activities.
💧Wednesday 24 April: 9am - 1pm

🌳Wellbeing with Connected Self
This retreat style workshop is designed for teachers to reset, recharge and reconnect. Leave with a wellbeing skill set to use in and out of your classroom.
🌳Friday 3 May: 9:30am - 4:30pm

Bookings essential! Head to https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/education/teacher-professional-development for details.

Teacher Professional Development 👩‍🏫

📌 Date: Wednesday 28 February 2024
📌 Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm

We're inviting science teachers to have early access to our new digital resources developed by our education team at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium.

During this FREE professional development workshop, we'll be focusing on the two new learning sequences, Adaptations (Year 4/5 Science) and The Science of Wellbeing (Year 7, 8 and 9 Science/STEM).

You'll be invited to provide feedback on the resources and how you might use them in the classroom. This feedback helps our education team to design authentic and engaging opportunities for schools.

A certificate will be provided with 4-hours professional development credit. You'll also receive a link to the resources to trial in your classroom and enter a draw to win a free educator-led experience at the Adelaide Botanic Garden for your class!

For more info and to book head to
https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/education/teacher-professional-development/resource-feedback-and-development

📣 Attention teachers and educators! 📣

Join us on Tuesday 6 February, 4pm - 5pm for a short webinar to see what the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium have planned for teacher professional development for 2024.

At Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, our experienced and friendly education team deliver teacher PD sessions for all teaching staff, from pre-school to senior secondary.

We cover a wide range of concepts with all sessions aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Framework.

Bookings are essential! For more information and to register head to https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/education/teacher-professional-development/teacher-pd-the-year-ahead

Are you looking for ways to get your students engaged in the garden? 🌿

Registrations for our Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden program are now OPEN for Term 3 and 4.

Explore the wonders of our kitchen garden with your class and join us for a range of fun and engaging learning opportunities. 🌱🌳

Your class will be led by a qualified kitchen garden educator who will take students on a hands-on garden journey aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework and Australian Curriculum.

Suitable for early years up to Year 7.

MORE INFO: https://bit.ly/ABGkitchengarden

2023 World Environment Day tickets are now available, and we've already had more than 50% of them snapped up in just one day! 🎉

Don't let your class miss out and get yours here >>> https://bit.ly/3oUqFDv

Please remember one ticket per class.

World Environment Day 2023 | Schools Bookings Bring your Foundation to Years 6 students to leafy Adelaide Botanic Garden to celebrate World Environment Day!

The 2023 World Environment Day program has just been released, with tickets available from 3:30pm tomorrow >>> https://bit.ly/3oUqFDv

On Friday 2 June 2023 (Term 2, Week 5), primary school classes are invited to attend our fantastic World Environment Day festival celebrations.

Classes should be a maximum of 30 students, and we ask that 4 classes per school be booked – should you have more classes in mind, please chat with the Botanic Gardens Schools team at [email protected].

Our presenters are scheduled in Australian Curriculum-friendly ‘themes’ largely connected to the World Environment Day 2023 theme of including Animals, Living Things, Living Past, Water and Conservation, Materials and Sustainability.

Please note this is a paid event.

Tickets available through Eventbrite above. Limited places available.

World Environment Day 2023 | Schools Bookings Bring your Foundation to Years 6 students to leafy Adelaide Botanic Garden to celebrate World Environment Day!

World Environment Day 2023 is coming to the Adelaide Botanic Garden and schools are invited!

On Friday 2 June 2023 (Term 2, Week 5), primary school classes are invited to attend our fantastic World Environment Day festival celebrations.

Students will be given the opportunity to meet environmental organisations and participate in hands on workshops as well as other awesome learning experiences all revolving around conserving and restoring the natural world.

They will leave this fun-filled day with stronger ideas of how they can positively impact their own local communities.

Since 1996, Adelaide Botanic Garden has educated tens of thousands of SA school students at its annual World Environment Day celebration. The theme this year is .

Tickets for school groups will be released in the first week of May (Term 2, Week 1).

A class group can be a maximum of 30 students, ticket prices will be confirmed upon release.

Please email [email protected] for any further enquiries.

Thinking of visiting the Botanic Gardens with your class? Let us know!

Get the kids up close and personal in the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden or let them be immersed in a range of our educator-led tour offerings. 🌱

For more information, please e-mail: [email protected] or to place your booking visit: http://bit.ly/3wTUpRT

🎓🎉 Happy World Teachers Day!

Thank you to the educators who take their learners out of the classroom and into our beautiful gardens. 🌿🌻

We know just how much hard work and passion goes into your work, and we hope we make your visits here just that little bit easier.

Wishing you all a relaxed day, and hope you get to enjoy some sunshine! ☀️

Woo hoo! We had a huge World Environment Day where we celebrated all things nature, and got our young South Australians to learn about solutions to some pressing environmental issues. Gigantic thank you to our teachers, students, volunteers, presenters and corporate partners RAA, SA Water and Veolia.

World Environment Day 2022 is on this Tuesday June 7! See our F-7 program, now including entry to Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. Tickets are released later today - limited spots are available. Join us in Adelaide Botanic Garden for a big, educational, environmental day out!

Botanic Gardens of South Australia | World Environment Day Thousands of students flock to Adelaide Botanic Garden each June to take part in the state's biggest WED event.

It's World Wetlands Day! These valuable environments function as important carbon sinks and support biodiversity. See the First Creek Wetland at Adelaide Botanic Garden in this virtual tour of the wetland. https://roundme.com/tour/567467/view/1842575

A Wetlands Walk - First Creek Wetlands from Adelaide SA 5000, Australia An informative tour of First Creek Wetlands at Adelaide Botanic Garden. Learn how wetlands work and why they’re important for maintaining healthy environments, especially urban ones.

Did somebody say virtual excursion? We're here to help you plan your excursion and answer botanical questions! We know the return to school in 2022 means a lot of work for our teachers teaching online, so we'd like to help in a small part by sharing with you our Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden virtual tour. What could you ask kids to do while viewing it? Find out about a veggie? Plan a meal for their family? Find out which veggies might be able to grow in their backyard? https://roundme.com/tour/559238/view/1826056/

Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden virtual tour from Adelaide SA 5000, Australia An informative tour of the popular Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden at Adelaide Botanic Garden that creates a snapshot of this beautiful environment.

That heatwave is nearly over... Perfect time for a fun self-guided treasure hunt for kids in the cool Adelaide Botanic Garden! 🌴 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/december-2021-january-2022-school-holidays-in-the-garden-tickets-221719427777

December 2021/ January 2022 School Holidays in the Garden School Holidays at Adelaide Botanic Garden

Today's Kitchen Garden educator's professional development workshop 'Five Senses in the Kitchen Garden' was an absolute blast! Educators had a hands-on day of activities that refuse, reduce and reuse cycle - see our lovely paper pots; participated in our Litte Sprouts Kitchen Garden program as learners (what a bountiful harvest of broad beans and carrots!); and enjoyed a Sensory Trail stroll with our botanical educator, discussing how sensory elements can lead to learning outcomes for a diverse range of children. Stay posted for the 2022 series of educator professional development workshops!

It's Pollinator Week! Produced by all flowering plants, pollen is a miniature packet that delivers the male DNA of a plant to the female egg. Come and see fascinating 3D printed models up close in our Santos Museum of Economic Botany, and meet our resident expert and research botanist, Dr. Andrew Thornhill for a special Australian Pollination Week activity! https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/whats-on/pollen-in-3d

Botanic Gardens of South Australia | Pollen in 3D See pollen like never before with unique 3D models in a special display. You can also meet an expert for all your questions during this Australian Pollination Week special!

If you're looking to add value to your site's kitchen garden going into 2022, our final 2021 Teacher Professional Development on November 26 is for you. 'Five Senses in the Kitchen Garden' is a hands-on half-day spent outdoors - see more at https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/education/teacher-professional-development

Botanic Gardens of South Australia | Teacher Professional Development Come along to our professional development sessions to learn about a range of topics to share with your students.

Join us for our last Educator Professional Development workshop for 2021 - 'Five Senses in the Kitchen Garden' on Nov 26! We'll get hands on with some nature education hands-on activities, kitchen garden experience, and a sensory trail. Places are limited. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/five-senses-in-the-kitchen-garden-educator-professional-development-tickets-195702289817

'Five Senses in the Kitchen Garden' Educator Professional Development Half-day Educator Professional Development Workshop connecting children with kitchen gardens and nature through their senses.

Looking for a day out in the gardens for that teenager in your life? Our school holiday program is the ticket!
📸 Botanical Photography trails with Adventure Art Photography 🌱
🧙‍♂️ Dungeons and Dragons: Fantasy world-building with expert Dungeoneers from SAYarts 🧞‍♂️
Bookings via https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/whats-on/school-holiday-program-spring-2021

Botanic Gardens of South Australia | School Holiday Program - spring… Bring your little explorer to a botanic garden in the spring school holidays for an action-packed, wholesome day out!

We're celebrating the spring school holidays with our biggest program yet for kids and teens!
🌱 Kaurna weaving and ochre painting
🌱 Expert photography trails through the gardens
🌱 Treasure Hunt at Mount Lofty Botanic Garden
And lots more! Bookings essential via our website https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/whats-on/school-holiday-program-spring-2021

Botanic Gardens of South Australia | School Holiday Program - spring… Bring your little explorer to a botanic garden in the spring school holidays for an action-packed, wholesome day out!

Spring has sprung! With the warmer weather we're seeing our lovely pollinators out and about again. We'll be releasing some of our favourite opportunities for kids and educators - more to come! Check out these two pollinators eyeing each other on this brassica flower.

Today marks Earth Overshoot Day, where humankind's demand for ecological resources outstrips the rate of regeneration in a given year. This is a perfect opportunity for a Problem-Based Learning project in your class! Perhaps a study of food waste, impacts of industry on rainforests, or restoring nearby habitat. Have your students assess their 'footprints' through the range of lessons at https://www.overshootday.org/kids-and-teachers-corner/classroom-activities/

Classroom Activities - Earth Overshoot Day Classroom activities and links to curriculum on the Ecological Footprint and sustainability.

It's coming up on National Tree Day, this August 1! Given the level of current COVID restrictions in SA and hiatus on excursions, we hope you can begin to postpone - or even look at an option on your own site in the near future! https://treeday.planetark.org/

National Tree Day Planet Ark and Toyota are calling on all Australians to Get Outside and Grow and help make nature a part of our everyday lives where we live, learn, work and play. This year there're more ways to branch out and help.

We had such a blast with our Term 2 School Holiday Program! For two weeks we had over 300 adventurers exploring with our Treasure Hunt kits, making fossils with Professor Flint, learning about some artefacts of Aboriginal peoples with Trent Hill, exploring the Rainforest, meeting some cute animal ambassadors with and making some botanical garden critters. Teachers, let families and OSHCs know we have an even bigger program lined up for the October holidays!

Thank you to all the educators that attended our recent ‘Starting a Kitchen Garden in Schools’ teacher professional development workshop.

Teachers spent the morning in beautiful Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden and the Goodman Lecture Theatre in the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Led by Botanical Educator Ian Wilson, educators explored some of the core concepts involved in starting a kitchen garden, including soil health, water and appropriate plants. Educators also received a copy of the Little Sprouts Educator Resource, packed with lesson ideas, plant knowledge and recipes.

We look forward to hosting a number of other teacher workshops, including more in a Kitchen Garden in Schools series, in 2021. In the meantime, see our What's On for adult-oriented learning, including a Kitchen Garden series https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/whats-on/Kitchen_Garden_workshops_2021

Stay tuned!

NAIDOC Week's theme this year is 'Heal Country!' When teachers head back to school from school holidays in SA, here's a fantastic Teacher Resources for Years 1 through 10, from 'NAIDOC / SBS Learn' to use - it is a great opportunity to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities local to you and embed this in school. Posted from Kaurna land. https://www.sbs.com.au/learn/resources/celebrate-naidoc-heal-country/teacher-resource

Celebrate NAIDOC: Heal Country! | SBS Learn SBS Learn is the proud Official Education Partner for NAIDOC Week 2021.

There's only 1 spot remaining in our 'Starting a Kitchen Garden in Schools' educator professional development workshop! Participants will learn from our expert botanical educator about some of the introductory stages to getting a kitchen garden up and running in your school. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/starting-a-kitchen-garden-in-schools-educator-professional-development-tickets-158529184057

'Starting a Kitchen Garden in Schools' Educator Professional Development Half-day Educator Professional Development Workshop in starting a kitchen garden in your school

Our July school holiday program is packed with botanical fun! From the Treasure Hunter's kit for adventurous explorers to fossil casting with Professor Flint to meeting some native Australian animal ambassadors, we are looking forward to the next few weeks!
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/july-2021-school-holidays-in-the-garden-tickets-160157658869

July 2021 School Holidays in the Garden July 2021 School Holiday Program at Adelaide Botanic Garden

Only 3 spots remain in our 'Starting a Kitchen Garden in Schools' Educator Professional Development workshop this July 5! Get in quick! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/starting-a-kitchen-garden-in-schools-educator-professional-development-tickets-158529184057

'Starting a Kitchen Garden in Schools' Educator Professional Development Half-day Educator Professional Development Workshop in starting a kitchen garden in your school