Welcome to the Children in Permaculture Activities section
• You can find an overview of our work on the background info page.
• You may find it useful to look at the this graphical overview of the Themes and Topics.
• To navigate activities according to the Themes and Topics, we suggest you use the "Activities by Theme" menu above.

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Holistic Planning

 Theme:
A. Introducing permaculture
B. Living nature
C. Design
D. Growing food
E. Built environment and resource use
F. Social permaculture 		Holistic planning (HP):
Eyes
Hands
Heart
Head 		Age:
3-6
7-12

Theme  Topic  Sub Topic Age HP Details
Soil and stone Stones See, feel, smell different types of rocks and stone, and guess at how they were made.
Soil and stone Stones Notice the presence of different quantities and types of rocks and stones in different landscapes.
Soil and stone Stones Compare the growth of plants grown in the open, with plants grown near large rocks acting as heat stores (all other factors e.g. soil depth, should be kept equal).
Soil and stone Stones Identify common rocks in the region.
Soil and stone Stones Put rocks in a garden to catch and store heat energy in places where it is needed.
Soil and stone Stones Explore which types of soil and stone resources are in the region and how that impacts on the different plants and animals that can live there.
Soil and stone Stones Learn the main ways which rocks are formed (if children interested can use names igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) and how that relates to forming soils, thus our food.
Soil and stone Stones Give thanks to stones and all the different things they give to us, e.g. warmth, buildings, walls, soil, a place for minibeasts to live.

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