Our Wildlife Features and Habitats program is specifically designed for Foundation to Grade 2 students, providing real-world examples to help Teachers explore the curriculum descriptors shown at the bottom of this webpage.
Our experienced Education Officers will facilitate a comprehensive program, in which Learners will:
- use all their senses to discover and experience the unique traits of Australian mammals, birds, reptiles, and invertebrates.
- observe and learn about the features, behaviours, and homes of a range of animals to understand their needs, and group them into categories.
- consider how animal behaviour, diet, and habitat may change across seasons, or in different weather, and how this may influence what we may be able to see.
- practise predicting how an animal may behave or move, or what category it belongs to, on the basis of prior learning or observation. Learners will be facilitated to pose questions and explore possible answers.
2026 PRICES
**TERM ONE DISCOUNTED PRICING**
Cost per student: $21.50 (minimum charge for 15 students per timetabled group)
TERMS TWO, THREE, FOUR
Cost per student: $24.00 (minimum charge for 15 students per timetabled group)
- Includes sessions facilitated by a Moonlit Sanctuary Education Officer (supervision by School Teachers required)
- Includes 1 Teacher-led session in the Wallaby Walk and roo food
- Includes reserved undercover seating.
- Includes entry to Moonlit Sanctuary
Extra adults over the below ratios: $25.50 (to a maximum of 1:1)
NOTE: All prices include GST
ADULT TO STUDENT RATIO
Foundation to Grade 2: 1 adult included free of charge for every 5 students (rounded up to the next 5)
Carers and Aides (for students with physical or learning needs): 1 included per student free of charge
Extra adults over the above ratios: $25.50 (to a maximum of 1:1)
RESOURCES
On the day, a Wallaby Walk info booklet will be provided to leading teachers and other supervising adults to assist them in facilitating this session.
Digital copies of this resource can be found here: Guide to Wallaby Walk
GROUP SIZE, STUDENT NUMBERS AND TIMETABLE
- We can run programs for 1 to 6 groups/classes
- There is a minimum charge for 15 students per timetabled group (invoiced for 15 per timetabled group even if fewer attend).
- There is a maximum capacity of 30 students per timetabled group
- Schools can split or combine classes to ensure they meet minimum or maximum numbers.
- Schools with more than 6 classes, or more than 150 students, can visit over multiple days
Please contact us for more information and to see example timetables.
Curriculum Links – Wildlife Features and Habitats Program
Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 : Foundation to Grade 2
| LEARNING AREA: SCIENCE | |
| Biological Science | Plants and animals have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways (VC2S2U01) |
| Plants and animals have basic needs, including air, water, food and shelter; the places where they live meet those needs (VC2S2U02) | |
| Plants and animals have external features that perform different functions to enable their survival; in plants these features include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trunks and branches while different features in animals enable them to move, breathe, eat and respond to their environment (VC2S2U03) | |
| Earth and space sciences | Daily and seasonal changes in the weather and the environment can be observed and affect decisions made in everyday life (VC2S2U07) |
| Taking care of Earth’s water, land and air involves consideration of reducing, re-using and recycling materials to conserve Earth’s resources (VC2S2U09) | |
| Science as a Human Endeavour: Nature and development of science | Scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments (VC2S2H01) |
| Science Inquiry: Questioning and Predicting | Experiences can be used as a basis for posing questions to explore observed patterns and relationships, and to make predictions VC2S2I01 |
| LEARNING AREA: GEOGRAPHY | |
| Geographical Knowledge and Understanding: Places and our connections to them | Weather and seasons, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ seasonal calendars (VC2HG2K06) |
| Cross Curriculum Priorities: Learning about sustainability | |
| Learning Capabilities: Critical and creative thinking & Ethical | |
