Guided tours for children
Guided tours for children can be booked on workdays for groups with a minimum participant number of 12 persons. Booking fees correspond to the regular price list of the Botanical Garden. A guided tour takes about one hour, unless otherwise stated. Please mention during the booking process if you wish a tour in English.
Topic |
Age, Time |
Description |
Discover rainforest and desert |
Preschool to 2nd grade, whole year |
A journey through rainforest and deserts with all senses. |
Useful plants from around the world |
1th to 6th grade, whole year |
Where do chocolate, banana and other products in our daily life come from? A journey around the globe. |
Treasure hunt |
Preschool, duration: 45 minutes |
There is a treasure in the Botanical Garden. Together with Eva Owl we go out in search of it. |
Herbs |
3rd to 6th grade, May to September |
Herbs enrich our food and help us to heal diseases. This tour introduces a selection of herbs to the children. The collected impressions are reflected at the end during a quiz of scents. |
A journey through time |
Preschool to 6th grade, whole year |
Discover the plant world of the dinosaurs. Get to know ‘living fossils’ and learn what Brachiosaurus might have eaten. |
True or false? Incredible stories from the world of plants |
3rd to 6th grade |
Plants that collaborate with ant or grow without roots? That love to eat rat poo or even have a memory? Sounds incredible? Well, maybe it is… Find out what is true or false! |
Bionics |
Project groups, 2nd to 6th grade, 12 to 16 persons |
How do plants inspire technical inventions of the future? Based on selected examples and small experiments we get to know the scientific field of Bionics. |
Plastic from plants |
Project groups from 5th to 9th grade, May to September, duration: 3 hours |
At the moment only available in German. |
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