In modern education, we increasingly encounter programs and activities that include a school garden in the process of learning. According to many authors, school gardens have many positive effects, but nevertheless, schools often encounter numerous obstacles when designing a school garden. In order to solve at least some of the problems associated with the establishment and maintenance of a school garden, we were exploring how much interest in working in a school garden students have and what are their attitudes to biology and specific topics related to plants. There were 387 6th to 9th graders from schools in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka participating in the survey. Anonymous questionnaires with three sets of questions (interest in plant related themes, interest in school garden work, attitudes to biology or science lessons) were distributed among the students. The answers to one set of questions were processed with basic statistical analysis, and the other two sets of questions were analyzed by factor analysis. The answers of students of different sexes, classes and places of education mostly showed statistically significant differences. Also medium-to-strong correlations between the obtained factors were shown, which means that there is a connection between interest in biology and individual plant groups that can be taught in a school garden. Based on the students’ answers and the curricula for biology and science in Slovene schools, we can conclude that with proper designing it would be possible to create a school garden that would be easy to maintain, interesting for students and useful in teaching biology and science.
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