Healesville Sanctuary Middle Years

Healesville Sanctuary offers engaging Middle Years programs that encourage students to discover, explore and engage with the natural world.
The programs aim to facilitate student-centred inquiry about our native wildlife to develop a deeper understanding of the world in which we live.

  • Australian Endangered Species

    Engage your students in real actions to protect our unique Australian species.

    Investigate the threats to Australian animals and their habitats
    Meet some unique Australian animals that need our help
    Explore everyday actions we can all take to assist our wildlife
    Unite with us to assist in the recovery of local endangered animals

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  • File 'em Classification

    Get up close and personal to some unique Australian animals and discover how scientific knowledge and understanding has changed the basis of classification systems.
    Uncover the uniqueness of Australian animals and explore the challenges faced by early researchers in placing our animals into existing classification systems.

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  • Amazing Australian Animals

    Discover the diversity and uniqueness of Australian wildlife with up close animal encounters  in their natural environment. Investigate the intriguing biology of Marsupials, get to know Australia's faunal emblems and help us care for Victoria's most endangered bird species by joining Web Spinners.

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  • Dreaming the Indigenous Way

    Immerse yourself in a bushland experience in the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.
    Celebrate the world's oldest living living culture and learn how the land and the animals support and protect all of us.

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  • Self Guided Learning Trails

    These Trail sheets are designed to be self-guiding but teachers may wish to introduce the concepts prior to the visit.

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  • Burra Burra Yan

    Led by Murrundindi, this exclusive guided walk through the protected Coranderrk Bushland offers an authentic experience of Victorian Indigenous culture.

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  • Drama in Dingo Country

    Alone on a rocky escarpment a dingo howls. What is he communciating? How do dingoes relate to each other and to us? Visit ‘Dingo Country' for your students to role play their part in the story of people and dingoes in Australia. Together we can create a secure and happy future for Australia's only wild dog.

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