• What's growing in our schools area?

      Our schools area is filled with learning resources and adventures to help children, young adults and educators discovering more about botanical gardens and all things plants whilst having some fun!

      It's free and open access (no account needed). Click on the tiles below to explore.


      Primary plant adventures

      This learning box grows a mix of plant adventures for primary children and classes; including Teddy Bears' Trail, Life of Plants, Wild Words, seasonal adventures, and Marley's School of Garden Magic!

      Go exploring
      Secondary green futures and discoveries

      Check out this learning box to discover careers at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Ideal for secondary school pupils, school leavers, young adults, career changers and anyone interested in what botanic gardens do!

      Discover more
      Plant-Kind

      Discover the Plant-Kind resource inspired by the amazing biodiversity-friendly work in schools and early years settings. A platform where teachers and learning practitioners can share examples with each other – whether they’re big or small, we celebrate them all!

      Visit Plant-Kind

       To view all the adventures and resources growing in our schools area select the button below:

      Visit the Schools Homepage

    • Help and Support

      A selection of resources to help you get the most out of your learning experience with PropaGate Learning:

       

      IT Info for attended students

      Resources to help you with your RBGE account, email, using Teams, online safety, printing and more

      Information

       

      Help pages

      Take a look at these pages to brush up on your digital skills and find out how to best use PropaGate Learning.

      Help pages

       

      Contact us

      You can contact us via the course technical support forums or directly by clicking the button below

      Contact us

    • Free courses

      Learn something new for free in one of our free courses!

       

      Plants and Climate Change

      Learn more about climate change, how it relates to plants and what you can do about it.

      Start learning

       

      How Plants Fight Back

      An introduction to how plants defend themselves.

      Learn

       

      Keep Edinburgh Buzzing!

      Discover the importance of our pollinators and how you can help.

      Learn



      Photograph credits 'Getting started with' photograph tiles: Eilidh Cameron