Testing Plant Scientists

Come on a journey through the Garden to discover the amazing world of plants.

Get hands-on with different types of seeds to determine their dispersal mechanisms and plant seeds to take back to school to conduct a life cycle investigation.

• Explore plant life cycles on a guided walk through the Garden and discover how scientists classify plants.
• Investigate seed dispersal in a hands-on experiment comparing different types of seeds and how they disperse.
• ​Make predictions and conduct a scientific investigation into whether specific Australian plants need fire and smoke to complete their lifecycles, including planting seeds to take back to school to complete the investigation.

• Identifying patterns in plants and grouping them according to their external features.
• Comparing the similarities and differences between the life cycles of different plants.
• Exploring pollination and seed dispersal as examples of interdependence between living things.
• ​Planning and conducting a scientific investigation with guidance, e.g. planting and measuring the life cycle of a marigold plant.

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Science - Living World

• Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things (ST2-4LW-S)

Supported Syllabus Outcomes

Science - Working Scientifically

• Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations (ST2-1WS-S)