Excursions and Incursions
2019 bookings now being taken 
Our award winning excursions provide hands-on, inquiry- focused educational experiences for P-12 year levels.
Nature Play
Teachers' Professional Development (TEN)
Free professional learning events each term for school and ELC educators, support staff and parents to network, share resources and connect to the local environment. A wide range of topics are covered with a focus on embedding sustainability and environment education in classroom teaching.
Emphasis is on STEAM/STEM and inquiry-based learning with a variety of topics covered such as climate change and ecosystems, habitat improvements for local species and plastics in our oceans and on land.
Early Learning
Nature Play Adventures
We have a wonderful variety of nature play and play-based activities for Early Learning Centres and Kindergartens. Excursions are offered at St Kilda Botanical Gardens and St Kilda Beach (including the penguin colony) and incursions at your centre.
Our most popular incursions and excursions are:
Zero-Waste Birthday Parties
Brought to you by Trash Puppets and the EcoCentre
Want a birthday party that is unique and fun, whilst ALSO caring for Mother Earth?
Now there's Trash Puppets’ Zero Waste Birthday Parties at the EcoCentre!
The EcoCentre acknowledges the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung language group, traditional owners of the land on which we are located. We pay respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and elder members of our multicultural community.
We proudly work in partnership with Arweet Carolyn Briggs and the Boon Wurrung Foundation.
