Develop an understanding of sustainable living through real-world practices.
Through hands-on experiences, students will explore key sustainability concepts including water conservation, organic waste management, and eco-friendly gardening. While exploring the Gardens, they will see behind-the-scenes sustainable practices in action and gain the knowledge and inspiration to support more sustainable habits in their schools, homes, and communities.
Students will:
- Observe how the Gardens use sustainable methods to care for the environment
- Take part in real-life gardening tasks in the kitchen garden
- Propagate a seed, cutting or seedling to grow at home
- Go on a guided discovery walk
Key Focuses:
- Exploring sustainability through gardening and environmental practices
- Understanding how gardening supports our health, wellbeing and community
- Learning through hands-on activities and sharing ideas with others
Curriculum Links:
- This program links to the Sustainability cross-curriculum priority across interrelationship of systems, worldviews, responsible design and futures thinking.
- Design & Technologies, Level 3 - 6
- The role of people in design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of solutions to meet community needs VC2TDE4S01
- Science, Levels 3 and 4
- Consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships VC2S4U03
Teacher Resources
Sustainable Gardening Teacher Resources
