Earth Keepers: A Backyard Permaculture Adventure for Kids
Give Your Child the Tools to Care for the Earth
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Build a bee hotel. Catch a sundial's shadow. Start a worm farm. Save your own seeds.
Earth Keepers is a joyful, hands-on permaculture and sustainability course for Australian kids aged 6–12 — built for homeschooling families, classrooms, and curious backyard scientists who want to do, not just read.
Across six modules, children explore all 12 permaculture principles through real Australian landscapes, native plants and animals, First Nations land-care knowledge, and activities they can genuinely complete themselves — no fancy equipment, no expensive kits, just curiosity and a backyard (or balcony!).
Whether you follow the Australian Curriculum or prefer a child‑led approach, Earth Keepers adapts to your family’s rhythm. Each module stands alone — explore freely or document learning with confidence.
👌Perfect for
- Homeschooling families
- Eco‑clubs and classrooms
- Backyard explorers aged 6–12
🌏 What's Inside
Introduction
Understanding permaculture
First nations practices
A spotlight on ecosystems
6 Modules, each containing:
- Warm, narrative-style background knowledge (written for young readers, packed with real depth)
- Permaculture principles explained simply, side-by-side with the why of sustainability
- Australian facts, native species, and First Nations knowledge woven throughout
- A key-word glossary
- 3 differentiated activity sheets per module — one for each age group below
- Sustainable habits children can put into practice immediately
Module 1 — Stop, Look, and Listen 👀 (Observe and Interact);
Module 2 — Energy Is Everywhere ⚡ (Catch & Store Energy + Renewable Resources);
Module 3 — Grow, Harvest, Share 🌱 (Obtain a Yield + Small & Slow Solutions);
Module 4 — Nothing Goes to Waste ♻️ (Produce No Waste + Self-Regulation & Feedback);
Module 5 — Everything Is Connected 🧩 (Integrate Rather Than Segregate + Value Diversity);
Module 6 — Patterns, Change, and Our Future 🌏 (Design from Patterns + Use Edges + Respond to Change).
🌱 Three Age Groups, One Course
No splitting your family into separate products — every module includes three differentiated activity sheets, so siblings of different ages can work through the same module together, at their own level.
- 🌱 Junior Explorer (Ages 6–8): drawing, matching, simple observation, and short sentences
- 🌿 Adventurer (Ages 9–10): written responses, research, and simple design tasks
- 🌳 Sustainability Leader (Ages 11–12): extended research, hands-on building, analysis, and advocacy
Real projects your kids will be proud of: a working sundial, a rainwater collector, a solar food dryer, a worm farm, a companion-planting garden, a native bee hotel, and a wildlife habitat they design and build themselves.
📚 Curriculum-Aligned, Without the Admin
Earth Keepers is mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9.0 across Science, HASS (Geography), Design and Technologies, and Mathematics (Years 3–6), with Sustainability embedded as a Cross-Curriculum Priority throughout. A full list of curriculum links is included, so homeschooling families can document learning, build portfolios, or report with confidence — without the paperwork headache.
🇦🇺 Proudly, Practically Australian
- Australian seasons, Australian English, and metric measurements throughout
- Native plants, animals, and ecosystems — from Tasmania's cool forests to the Great Barrier Reef
- A dedicated section on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land care, cultural burning, and the Budj Bim aquaculture system — the first permaculturists, 65,000+ years before the word existed
- Activities suited to real Australian backyards, balconies, and climates
🖨️ Designed for Real Family Life
- Every activity prints as its own standalone A4 page
- Most materials are things you already have at home, or can find cheaply (a full materials list is included — organised by age group)
- A printable completion certificate for your child to proudly display
- Work through it at your own pace, in any order, choosing the activity level that suits each child
💚 Why Families Choose Earth Keepers
This isn't a worksheet pack. It's a genuine invitation for kids to discover that they're part of nature — and that their everyday choices really do matter. Every module is grounded in the three core permaculture ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share — so children come away not just knowing facts, but caring.
"Small steps. Big impact." — that's the whole idea, and by the end of this course, your child will believe it too.
Format: Digital download (PDF) — instant access, print at home, use again and again.