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Guided tours for school classes

Target groups:

  • School classes of all levels
  • Teacher groups (further education)

Possible topics (depending on the season):

  • Highlights in the botanical garden  
  • A trip to the Alps - Wie lebt es sich hoch oben?  
  • Bee Garden - Life of the bees  
  • Biodiversity - plant diversity and its entanglements  
  • Bionics - Plants and Technology  
  • Evolution of land plants - Von der Alge zur Orchidee  
  • Fascinating plant world under the binocular: plants and scent - NEW  
  • Fascinating plant world under the binocular: plants with hairs, hooks and thorns - NEW  
  • Fascinating plant world under the binocular: The world of flowers - NEW  
  • Fascinating plants under the binoculars: Flowers, scents and thorns  
  • Flowers and their pollinators  
  • Magic plants  
  • Native trees, shrubs and herbs  
  • Nutrition specialists - Fleischfressende Pflanzen und Parasiten  
  • Plant records  
  • Plants and animals in and around water  
  • Plants and climate change  
  • Plants and nutrition
  • Plants in the rainforest - Biodiversität, Nutzpflanzen, Aufsitzerpflanzen, Ameisenpflanzen, vogelbestäubte Blüten, Anpassungen  
  • Plants of the deserts - Anpassungen an Trockenheit, Nutzpflanzen, Aasblüten, Pflanzengifte  
  • Plants of the Mediterranean - Haarig, dornig und duftend  
  • Poisonous plants  
  • Useful and medicinal plants  
  • What is edible from meadow and fore

* Bino tours: Classes with more than 15 pupils are split up. While one group attends the microscopy tour, the other group is supervised by the teachers.

Duration/time

90 minutes. Classes with more than 15 pupils are divided into two groups and guided through the garden for 45 minutes one after the other.

Monday to Friday

Start: from 9 am
End: by 6 pm at the latest (= start time 4:30 pm)

Guided tours in English

Guided tours can also be conducted in English on request (please specify in the comments field of the online form!)

Course management

Biologists

Costs

200 CHF

You will receive an invoice for payment after the tour.

Registration

Registration with Online form (in german)

3 weeks in advance

Cancellation conditions

The tour takes place in all weathers.

If you have to postpone your garden tour, please notify us immediately by phone or email (044 634 84 84) or per e-mail  fuehrungen@systbot.uzh.ch)

The following conditions apply to the cancellation of tours or in the event of no-shows:

  1. Cancellation is free of charge up to 7 days before the date.
  2. If you cancel the tour less than 7 but more than 3 days before the date, the   cancellation fee is 50% of the price.
  3. If you cancel the tour less than 3 days before the date, the full price will be charged.
  4. If a group does not show up for the tour, the full price will also be charged.

Organisational matters

Classes of more than 15 people are divided into two groups and guided through the garden one after the other. You are responsible for the programme of the other half class. We recommend taking an accompanying person, especially for the lower classes.

 

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