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Curriculum Links

This page contains organisations or website which provide curriculum links which may be of interest or use to those interested in school gardening, education or sustainability. Click on the heading to enter the site or page.

Kids Grow

KidsGrow – Garden Teaching Resource for schools includes an overview of the learning outcomes for four themed gardens and provides practical tips for gardening at school. KidsGrow is a useful resource for teachers to use to link gardens to school curriculum and encourages interdisciplinary learning.

  • KidsGrow – Garden Links to Learning poster
  • KidsGrow – Important Resources for Schools
  • Kids Grow – Themed Garden – Munch and Crunch Garden
  • KidsGrow – Themed Gardens – Waterwise Sensory Maze
  • Kidsgrow – Themed Gardens – Australian Habitat Haven
  • KidsGrow – Themed Gardens – Seasonal Colour Garden

Cool Australia 1Cool Australia

Cool Australia provides online educational material and support to the teaching community free of charge. They bring sustainability and our environment into Australian classrooms, providing teachers with engaging, fun and informative learning activities and units of work on a whole range of topics.

Grace’s Mystery Seed

An engaging and educational story where Grace learns how to grow a seed with the help of Mrs Marion.  She does not know what it will become.  Author Juliet M Sampson, who is also a primary school teacher, has provided a pdf of teacher’s notes which covers maths, English and science curriculum.

Junior Landcare – Learning Centre

Provide easy and FUN 30-minute activities aligned to the school curriculum to get the students involved in environmental sustainability activities at school, home or in the community.

Learning about Sustainability Mapping 

Learn how to relate gardening/sustainability to curriculum.

Linking Gardens to School Curriculum

Ideas how to integrate gardening with classroom curriculum.

Botany Games & Resources for Kids

Botany is just a fancy word for the study of plants. A botanist is a special kind of scientist who studies how plants grow, their different parts, the places they grow, and how they fit into life on Earth. There are many kinds of plants, and they are all important and grow in different ways. This site has  links to different education site with lessons, information and games about plants for children.

Frontiers for Young Minds

Provides a collection of freely available scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers. Biodiversity and Earth and it Resources are just some of the subjects covered.

Teaching about Plants – Biology Activities for Kids

Teach students all about plants with these hands-on and fun activities for kids by Enjoy Teaching.

Pollination for Kids | Flower Learning Video

Learn about pollination in this learning video for kids. See the process of how a flower multiplies and makes other flowers and learn about pollinators!

The Beauty of Pollination – Moving Art™

This short film is about the threat to essential pollinators that produce over a third of the food we eat. The seductive love dance between flowers and pollinators sustains the fabric of life and is the mystical keystone event where the animal and plant worlds intersect that make the world go round.

What is photosynthesis?

Plants can make their own food using a process called photosynthesis, learn how they do it.

Photosynthesis – worksheet

Look at the picture and fill in the blanks using the words at the bottom of the page.

Introduction of Herbs for Children 

Introduction to Herbs for Kids series! This series of lessons caters to that natural inquisitiveness while introducing children to the world of herbalism in interesting and enjoyable ways. Written towards children,…

All About Bees

Find out more about these fascinating pollinators, with teaching and learning materials, games, videos, glossaries, databases of the different species and pieces of general knowledge.

Vermicompost – Life in the compost bin – video

Watch this time lapse video of two weeks in a compost bin in one minute.

Three earthworm species – video

These time-lapse movies show the behaviour of three different earthworm species feeding and barrowing.

How and Why to Keep a Garden Journal

Keeping detailed notes about what and where you plant is worth the effort.

Garden Journal

Use these pages to start your own garden journal

Apps to Download

National Waterbug – Identifies (freshwater invertebrates) from Australia

Frog ID – Frog identification initiative

PlantSpot Plant Identification – Identifies  thousands of trees, flowers, succulents, cacti and more in an instant.

Veg Pest ID – Identify pests on your vegetable crops

Field Guide app to Victorian Fauna – Explore Victoria’s unique and diverse wildlife at home or in the great outdoors

iNaturalist – Identify plants and animals around you.

Oversee Garden Programs

Kids Gardening  Offer inspiration and support to educators and families by providing kids garden activities, garden-based educational resources, gardening advice, and other helpful tips to inspire you to just keep growing.

School Gardening (RHS) Choose from activities, projects, lesson plans & other resources suited to your educational needs.

The Edible Garden Project Edible education lessons plans and materials for educators or that students can complete at home.

School Garden Project School Creates STEM units designed for garden centred education.

Collective School Garden Network

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