Through hands-on experiences, students will explore key sustainability concepts including water conservation, organic waste management, and eco-friendly gardening.
While exploring Melbourne Gardens, they will see behind-the-scenes sustainable practices in action, work with others to share ideas and reflect on practice, learn about ethically growing food, and build the knowledge and inspiration to support responsible habits in their schools, homes, and communities.
Students will:
- Take part in real-life gardening tasks in the Kitchen Garden
- Observe how the Gardens use sustainable methods to care for the environment
- Propagate a seed, cutting or seedling to grow at home
- Go on a guided field walk
Key Focuses:
- Exploring sustainability through gardening and environmental practices
- Understanding the connections between gardening, health, wellbeing, and community, and how these shape sustainable lifestyles.
- Hands-on learning and collaborative inquiry
Curriculum links:
- This program links to the Sustainability cross-curriculum priority across interrelationship of systems, worldviews, responsible design and futures thinking.
- Health & Physical Education
- Levels 7 to 10
- Participate in physical activities that utilise community spaces, outdoor environments and aquatic settings safely, and evaluate strategies to support the increased use of these spaces VC2HP8M06 / VC2HP10M06
- Design & Technologies
- Levels 7 - 10
- Analyse how food and fibre are produced in managed environments and how these can become ethical VC2TDE8C02
- The impacts of innovation, enterprise and emerging technologies on designed solutions for ethical considerations including sustainable living VC2TDE10S02
- Analyse and make judgements on the ethical and secure production and marketing of food and fibre enterprises VC2TDE10C02
- Develop design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions VC2TDE10D04
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