• The tour of the Garden in 10 games (for kindergarten children)
• Our teacher, Nature (for primary school children)

The aim of these activities is to enable the children to:
• Discover the complex world of plants through games and hands-on activities
• Learn in an entertaining way the great importance of plants and animals for humanity and its future
• Develop feelings of love and respect for the natural environment
• Adopt a responsible behavior towards the natural environment and its preservation
• Come into contact with the flora of Cephalonia

The educational material used during these activities is designed so that, by the end of their visit to Cephalonia Botanica, knowledge has been acquired by the children as a result of personal experience.

Apart from the great variety of subjects, allowing two or three visits to the Garden during the same school year, the environmental activities are based on rapid alteration (each lasts for fifteen minutes) and flexibility. Thus, these activities may be used as the basis for projects both outside and within the official school curriculum (e.g. Greek Language, Environmental Education).

The educational staff are always available to teachers who wish to schedule a visit (duration: one and a half hours) to Cephalonia Botanica. Some of the subjects the teachers may choose from are the following: Young Botanists (herbs and plants of Cephalonia), Insects and Pollen, Code Name and Tissue (food chains), Survival (the cycle of life of a seed - a butterfly - water), Find its Pair – The Oldest – Meeting a Tree (trees - bushes – leaves), Wild Flowers, The Seasons, Weather, Geographic Orientation, Sounds/Colours (senses, memory, observation), Birds and Nests, Fairies and Elves (Greek fables, endangered species and local legends), Games and Waste Products (recycling), Animal Masks (endangered species) and so on. The programmes are flexible, to suit the subject currently taught in class.

The impressive participation of the children in every field of the educational programmes in general, and in the field of Environmental Education in particular, is a clear indication of the needs that are being covered by the Educational Department of the Focas-Cosmetatos Foundation.