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Educators can now spark environmental learning across the school year with the Junior Landcare Calendar, a free downloadable resource designed to help plan meaningful classroom and outdoor activities around Australia’s key environmental dates.
The calendar links directly to curriculum-friendly Junior Landcare learning activities, resources and downloadable activity sheets. This makes it easier than ever to design projects that build environmental awareness and support students’ inherent curiosity about nature, all while linking to learning outcomes.
Whether you’re designing a wildlife habitat for Schools Tree Day, following the Native Bee Maze for World Bee Day, or exploring First Nations seasons and creating a yarning circle for NAIDOC Week, the calendar provides useful prompts and project ideas to guide your planning throughout the year. Here’s a snapshot for Term 1 and Term 2.
Term 1 2026: Wetlands, Wildlife and Water
2 Feb: World Wetlands Day
This learning activity is focused on cleaning up our waterways and teaching students to consider our behaviours and their impact on waterways.
11 Feb – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Investigating the soil food web encourages students to use scientific thinking, observation and data collection which is perfect for highlighting the role of women and girls in science. It’s a chance to showcase real-world female roles in ecology, conservation and STEM while empowering students to see themselves as scientists. Perhaps your local landcare group has an ecologist who could come in to talk to the students?
1 Mar – Clean Up Australia Day
Organising a local clean-up can be a great way of teaching about the impact plastic has on our natural environment. This learning activity is focused on undertaking a beach clean-up, but can be tailored to wherever your school is located.
3 Mar – World Wildlife Day
Creating Wildlife Habitat activity aligns perfectly becuase it helps students to understand the needs of local fauna and take practical action to support biodiversity. It encourages learners to think critically about how habitat protection sustains wildlife, making the global theme meaningful at a local level.
20 March – World Frog Day
Get hands on supporting frogs in your local area through Creating a frog friendly habitat or take this Australian frog quiz or one of our other frog-themed Just for Kids downloadable activities, perfect for us in the classroom.
22 Mar – World Water Day
Explore practical ways to help wildlife in times of extreme heat through this learning activity.
28 Mar – Earth Hour
Creating a Worm Farm encourages students to think about waste, resource cycles, and reducing landfill waste, which supports broader climate and sustainability awareness in line with Earth Hour’s goals.
Term 2 2026: Soil, Seas, Bees and NAIDOC
22 April – Earth Day
Encourage students to connect with nature by making careful and thoughtful observations through our Observing what’s in your habitat or What’s happening in the habitat learning activities.
3 – 9 May – International Compost Awareness Week
Get little hands dirty making compost and communicating their learnings through a persuasive writing exercise. Explore other Junior Landcare activities to teach about soil: more than just dirt, investigating the soil food web or creating a worm farm.
12 May – International Day of Plant Health
Teach all about weeds and their reproductive life cycles, how they compete with native plants and can dominate in natural ecosystems and agricultural production through our Understanding weeds activity.
20 May – World Bee Day
Help students learn about the important roles that bees and other insects play in the environment with our Getting the buzz learning activity or check out the Native Bee Maze Just for Kids activity for a class-room based option.
5 Jun – World Environment Day
Celebrate World Environment Day with our selection of quick and easy Just for Kids activities based on Junior Landcare’s four pillars of Biodiversity, Food Production, Waste Management and First Nations perspectives.
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
Learn about microplastics and caring for our precious coastline through our Caring for our coasts: beach survey learning activity. If you’re not located near a beach, check out our fun seal drawing activity.
5 – 12 Jul – NAIDOC Week
Our series of learning activities about creating a yarning circle is a fantastic way to celebrate First Nations culture and knowledge in your school. Check out our First Nations designed colouring-in activities for another way to celebrate NAIDOC Week.
Start planning today
Simply scan the QR code on the Junior Landcare Calendar to discover a curated list of learning activities linked to each date in the school year.
With hand-on projects, curriculum focus and a full year of environmental highlights, the Junior Landcare Calendar 2026 is the perfect planning aide for educators, families and community groups.
To print your 2026 Junior Landcare Calendar: Download now
Coming soon:
Term 3 2026: Landcare, biodiversity and citizen science
24 Jul – Schools Tree Day
Creating a wildlife habitat: planting or sensory garden
3-9 Aug – Landcare Week
Start a JLC group or Plan a Junior Landcare Friendly party.
4 – Aug – National Aboriginal and Islander Children’s Day
First Nations Seasons
15 – 23 Aug – National Science Week
22-28 Aug – Book Week
Bandicoot Book Corner
September – Biodiversity Month
Creating a beneficial garden: assessment or The Insect Game
7 Sep – National Threatened Species Day
25 Sep – Save the Koala Day
Check out our Spot the Animal crossword
Term 4 2026: Outdoor learning, pollinators and healthy soil
5 Oct – World Habitat Day
19 – 25 Oct – Aussie Backyard Bird Count
6 Nov – Outdoor Classroom Day
14-19 November – National Pollinator Week
5 December – World Soil Day
Recommended learning activities:
- Creating a wildlife habitat – World Habitat Day
- Observing what’s in your habitat – Outdoor Classroom Day
- Getting the buzz on bees and other beneficial insects – National Pollinator Week
- Investigating the soil food web – World Soil Day
Start planning today
Simply scan the QR code on the Junior Landcare Calendar to discover a curated list of learning activities linked to each date in the school year.
With hand-on projects, curriculum focus and a full year of environmental highlights, the Junior Landcare Calendar 2026 is the perfect planning aide for educators, families and community groups.
To print your 2026 Junior Landcare Calendar : Download now
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