Save a Species

The 'Save a Species' project offers exciting learning opportunities for school children through science, art and language activities. The project aims to stimulate and motivate primary and secondary students.

The activities have been developed by our team of environmental educators to suit specific primary and secondary year levels. All complement and integrate educational curricula.

Activities cover everything from researching the meaning of internationally accepted plant conservation terms, researching the plants within the local area of your school to the role of sustainability. The importance of biodiversity and sustainability are integrated throughout the programme. Importantly, activities do not focus solely on science-related subjects; language, art and social science feature through this course of study.

The activities assist you in providing your students with numerous ways of connecting with the plants in your local area, to understand the importance of all species and to actually propagate, grow and care for selected species.

• Develop an understanding of the importance of plant species on this planet

• Research rare, endangered and threatened plants in your local area

• Propagate species

• Understand why different plant species, their seeds and seedlings require different conditions to grow and prosper

• Select a plant species to save by investigating its needs for survival

• Propagate and establish specimens of the selected plant species in your school ground and/or local community and at Myall Park Botanic Garden (if appropriate)

• Form partnerships with plant organisations that will assist you in at species in your endeavours

• Establish a management plan that will maintain the propagated species

The programme is sponsored by: Multiage Association of Queensland, Landcare Australia, Society for Growing Australian Plants.

The Garden supplies the following to participating schools:

Teacher’s guide, student booklets for Early Childhood to Year 3; Middle Primary and Upper Primary; Lower Secondary, additional study material for all four levels, seeds for propagation, description of the seed species, Yates hothouse for seed raising, planting guidelines, two sizes of pots, tree guards, expert helpers to assist and support teaching staff and students and much more.

If you are interested to know more about this innovative programme please email N.Lester@griffith.edu.au.

The programme is the intellectual property of Myall Park Botanic Garden Ltd and was written by Dr Nita C. Lester.