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Learn basic tool safety rules, e.g. when carrying a tool always walk (not run), hold it in a safe way, the names of the different parts of the tool (e.g. handle, blade). |
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Natural building materials |
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Learn vocabulary for natural building materials, such as moss, straw, clay. |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Experience sleeping in a shelter made by themselves from local natural materials and compare it with living indoors. |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Use ropes and strings to tie knots to build something (such as a shelter). |
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Shelter |
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Find out traditional ways peoples in different places showed gratitude for warmth and shelter; what kinds of blessings did they have? Create a blessing ceremony for a fairy home or a real home based on things that you learn about those traditions. |
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Shelter |
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Learn that people in different parts of the world design their homes and buildings to best suit the materials they have and their climate. |
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Buildings |
Natural building materials |
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Choose a simple building plan and then try building it (for example with wooden blocks). |
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Natural building materials |
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Build something e.g. a shelter, chicken tractor, raised bed and create a scale drawing of it. |
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Buildings |
Natural building materials |
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Make models using different geometry (e.g. reciprocal-frame roof, geodesic dome etc.) |
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Natural building materials |
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Make a scale-drawing (and learn how to read them). |
