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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Identify minibeasts in nature. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Move soil and mulch with spades, shovels and rakes. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Spot different plants which can tell you about the soil, and the history of the site (e.g. nettles often grow where humans once lived and urinated). |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Dramatise life in soil in which children act as the different elements in soil e.g. stones, minerals, water, air, humus, earthworms, fungus, plant roots, seeds, bacteria etc. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Read or listen to mythological stories from around the world with symbolic representations of the earth; discuss the wisdom of ancient cultures in their relationship to the earth. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Listen to the earth (e.g. ear on soil/child-made telephone to Mother Earth) - it is alive and full of energy in roots, fungi and worms all working together to create soil - a precious resource that needs us to care for it. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Sing and dance songs inspired from indigenous cultures about earth as a mother (e.g. "The Earth is Our Mother, we must take care of her"). |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Lie down outside on the ground, Eyes closed, feel part of the earth; imagine seasons passing, weather changes and breathe deeply. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Stand barefoot on the earth and imagine tensions releasing into the ground; imagine you are a mountain, a solid and unmovable part of the earth itself. |
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Soil and stone |
Exploring soil and soil life |
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Learn about the process of decomposition. |
