My Desert Jungle

Desert Jungle, an exhibition of stunning artworks from renowned children’s author Jeannie Baker is coming to the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

Bring your students and join our skilled educators to explore the Garden and the exhibition, to learn about biodiversity, thriving desert landscapes, connection to place, and to experience the wonders of time spent in nature.

Through visual arts and literature, close observation, mindfulness and art making, students explore ideas about their relationship to the natural world and learn about the benefits of connection to the natural environment.

• Explore the Desert Jungle exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
• Visit the Succulent Garden and explore the amazing adaptations that make these plants survivors
• Learn about desert landscapes, plant adaptation and biodiversity
• Experience the benefits of connecting to nature using five senses and nature play 
• Complete an ephemeral art making activity

• Learn about desert landscapes, plant adaptation and biodiversity
• Engage with storytelling to learn about how to care for their environment
• Develop a sense of wonder through sensory exploration of the Botanic Garden

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Science

• Describes ways that different places in the environment provide for the needs of living things (ST1-11LW)
• Describes that living things have life cycles, can be distinguished from non-living things and grouped, based on their observable features (ST2-10LW)
• Describes how structural features and other adaptations of living things help them to survive in their environment (ST3-10LW)
• Describes some physical conditions of the environment and how these affect the growth and survival of living things (ST3-11LW)

Geography

• Describes features of places and the connections people have with places (GE1-1)
• Examines the features and characteristics of places and environments (GE2-1)
• Identifies ways in which people interact with and care for places (GE1-2)
• Describes the ways people, places and environments interact (GE2-2)
• Describes the diverse features and characteristics of places and environments (GE3-1)
• Explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments (GE3-2)