Botanical Garden Tour

Last updated on
Monday, December 22nd, 2025
Experience type: 
In-Person
Program Description

Explore the diverse flora of our Garden on a walking tour through our many gardens, such as our expansive Asian Garden, Garry Oak Meadow, Food Garden, Alpine Garden, Physic Garden, and B.C. Rainforest Garden! In our 80 acres of unique plants from all over the world, we provide place-based learning that easily matches the new curriculum and gives your students an experience to remember. 

To book, please visit our website at: https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/learn/field-trips/

Big Ideas
  • Daily and seasonal changes affect all living things.
  • Plants and animals have observable features.
  • Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment.
  • Observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and landscape.
  • Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment.
  • Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment.
  • Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems.
  • Wind, water, and ice change the shape of the land.
  • All living things sense and respond to their environment.
  • Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive and interact within their environment.
  • Multicellular organisms rely on internal systems to survive, reproduce, and interact with their environment.
  • Evolution by natural selection provides an explanation for the diversity and survival of living things.
  • Life processes are performed at the cellular level.
  • The theory of plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains Earth’s geological processes.
  • The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.
  • Trip Details
    City: 
    For Grades: 
    K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Duration: 
    60 minutes unless otherwise stated.
    Maximum Students: 
    Offered In French: 
    Contact Us
    Also Offered For: 
    Adult Groups, Daycamps, ESL, Guides, Homeschool, Other, Preschool, Scouts
    Packages Provided: 
    No Packages Provided
    Fee Details
    Cost Per Student: 
    $8.00
    Cost Per Adult: 
    $12.00
    Fee Notes: 

    Child: $8, Youth: $10, Adult: $12*   One complimentary chaperone per 8 students.

    Additional Notes

    Minimum 10 participants.