Provincial science curriculum objectives as they pertain to programs covered at MUN Botanical Garden
Kindergarten
- Demonstrate curiosity about and interest in the natural world
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the patterns and the diversity of the natural world (i.e. patterns in a leaf)
- Demonstrate a positive attitude about the environment (understand the effect that humans may have on habitats and the plants and animals that live in them)
- Observe characteristics, similarities, differences and changes that occur in the natural world (i.e. plants and animals)
- Classify materials such as leaves according to size and colour
- Understand the needs of living things (i.e. plants and animals require five major components to survive: shelter, air, food, space and water)
- Demonstrate an understanding of caring for living things (i.e. plants and animals)
- Categorize and understand the characteristics of different kinds of living things (i.e. birds, mammals, plants)
- Understand the food comes from plants and animals
- Recognize and understand some of the effects of weather (i.e. how it affects people, plants and animals – seasonal changes)
