Physical, personal and social learning through community engagement and initiative

• Promote physical activity and context. Discuss local and world wide environmental activity and history of Wurundjeri.
• Build social relationships by working in teams.
• Learn about and go to a community planting day. (MCMC runs dozens every year!)

Discipline-based learning

(Geography, history, intercultural knowledge, language and number awareness, scientific concepts and practices.)

• Create scaled models or panoramas of gardens and grounds during garden planning.
• Look at the local area as an early explorer might have - develop maps, use a compass, record observations such as details about plants.
• Read up on natural and social history – use pamphlets, booklets. Include environmental information for visitors on school tours.
• Develop a data base to record garden development by measuring plant height and width, survival rates etc.
• Botanical drawing, ecological systems (e.g. water cycle, soil development)

Interdisciplinary learning

• Organize a guided walk near your local waterway that involves another school.
• Present information about indigenous plants in posters, or using powerpoint presentations.
• Investigate local weeds and develop an on-line weed herbarium.
• Design a plant herbarium to display at your school.