Joint Program – Adelaide Botanic Garden & Adelaide Zoo  

This program is designed to help schools maximise the educational value of your excursions, providing a rich, curriculum-aligned learning experience across two of South Australia’s leading science and nature education sites.   

For this unique joint program, booking and invoicing will be handled and confirmed through the team at Zoos SA.  

At the Botanic Garden, students investigate plant adaptations across a range of biomes. Through guided exploration of rainforest, aquatic and arid environments, students examine how plants compete for light, water and nutrients, and how this has led to structural, behavioural and physiological adaptations.  

At Adelaide Zoo, students extend this learning to the animal kingdom, exploring how animals have adapted to their habitats through physical features, behaviours and internal processes. Using biofacts, live animal encounters and interactive discussion, students can use skills developed earlier in the day to compare adaptations and apply their learning.  

Students will: 

• Investigate how conditions in different biomes affect living things  

• Observe how plants and animals adapt to stimuli in their environment   

• Make connections between plants, animals and the environment  

• Interact with plants and live animals   

Curriculum links:  

• Biological Sciences  

Day Itinerary:  

Please note that it is an approximately 15-minute walk from the Garden to the Zoo  

• 9:45am: Arrive Adelaide Botanic Garden  

• 10:00am – 11:00am: 60-minute session at Adelaide Botanic Garden   

• 11:00am – 12:00pm: break, bathrooms, explore the Garden and make your way to Adelaide Zoo along Plane Tree Drive  

• 12:00pm – 12:45pm: 45-minute session at Adelaide Zoo  

• 12:45pm – 2:00pm: lunch, explore Adelaide Zoo, depart