Botanic Garden and Attenborough Arboretum
Additional programmes
KS1/2

- Waste Busters - A half-day programme looking at reducing, recycling and reusing
- Winter Woodlands - a winter trail looking at plant adaptations and their uses to people, use fruits to dye cloth, build shelters, creating animal footprint paths
KS2
- Archaeology - how we learn about the past. Discovery boxes, use easi-scope microscopes to distinguish between archaeological items, garden trail, using fruit to dye cloth, learn about medicinal plants
- Botanica - A fun classroom based simulation exercise looking at the affect of hosting an international sporting event on a country in the Global south and outside comparing the different climates in the Botanic Garden.
These programmes are available or individual activities can be swapped into other programmes. Please contact botanicgarden@leicester.ac.uk.