Singapore Botanical Gardens

Singapore Botanical Gardens

1. Visit to the Singapore Botanical Gardens

   • Make charts of what flowers and trees were seen
   • Do first-hand drawing of tree/plant/flower

2. Language arts

   • Famous gardeners

3. Exploration

   • Fictional book on garden and plants E.g. Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit
   • Timelapse video of seeds germinating and growing into plants and flowers

4. Music and Movement

   • The flower dance
   • The flower song
   • Use musical instruments to portray e.g. weather/ mood of flowers/
   • Identifying sounds in nature: wind, birds

5. Creative Drama

   • Pantomime movements of seeds and plants as they pretend to flowers that grow and dance
   • Flower shop Dramatic play
   • Do guided imagery of pretending to be a flower in a garden.
   • Poem about flowers/plants/trees

6. Visual Arts

   • Flower petal collage/ leaves collage
   • Tree bark tracing
   • Photography
   • stain glass

7. designing a concept of a school garden (literacy)