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Plants Alive! unit fosters learning

By Kelly Lucas-Carmody

May 19, 2026

This Education Week, Wilmot Road Primary School students are learning about plants, life cycles, habitats, sustainability, and the connection between First Nations Peoples and plants.

This Education Week, Wilmot Road Primary School is proud to celebrate the rich learning happening across its school through its Plants Alive! inquiry unit.

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At Wilmot Road Primary School, students are building strong knowledge about plants, life cycles, habitats, sustainability, and the deep connection between First Nations Peoples, plants, country and culture.

This learning has not happened in isolation. It has been carefully connected to rigorous English and maths learning, so students can read, write, speak, investigate, measure, compare, explain and create with purpose.

Across the term, students have read and explored a range of non-fiction texts, learnt powerful new vocabulary, discussed important scientific ideas, and written their own information books about plants.

They have investigated plant structures, life cycles, pollination, germination, habitats, and the ways plants have been, and continue to be, used by First Nations Peoples for food, tools, medicine and daily life.

Students have then applied this knowledge through inquiry and investigation.

They have made 3D model flowers, created bug hotels, role-played life cycles, constructed habitats, grown crystal flowers, and built environments for endangered animals.

They have also cooked using traditional bush tucker ingredients, helping them connect classroom learning to culture, food, science and community.

Through this work, students are not just “doing activities” they are learning how to think, talk and work like scientists, readers, writers and mathematicians.

They are using English skills to understand complex ideas, maths skills to measure and compare, and inquiry skills to question, test, design and explain.

The school will also celebrate this wonderful term of learning with a visit to Zoos Victoria, where students will continue to explore living things, habitats, conservation and the role we all play in caring for our natural world.