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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Create habitat for wild animals in a garden (e.g. wildlife pond, wildflower meadow). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Create something from a product of an animal found in nature or a garden (e.g. candles, brushes, feather pens). |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Research the way indigenous people (e.g. Sami, native Americans, ) used the whole of an animal (e.g. buffalo) to meet many of their needs (e.g. clothes, housing, footwear, music, boat, food). Explore how local people's traditional practices enabled them to 'produce no waste' and 'use and value renewable resources'. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Notice what wild animals are eating, and what their homes look like. |
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Growing food |
Animals in permaculture |
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Learn about sustainable aquaculture systems and when, and why, they can be appropriate. |
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Buildings |
Biomimicry |
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Watch how birds build their nests. |
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Buildings |
Biomimicry |
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Talk about something amazing which an animal does, such as 'How does a bird make a nest with it's beak!?!' and try to copy their shelter (e.g. foxes den, wood mouse nest). |
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Buildings |
Biomimicry |
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Observe how buildings are built in harmony with the natural landscape and climate (lower buildings in a high valley, pointed roofs where it snows a lot, green roofs, etc.). |
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Buildings |
Biomimicry |
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Copy a design from nature into something they build (biomimicry). |
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Air |
Breath |
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Notice your own breathing, try breathing like a turtle/rabbit/ladybug/mouse/horse/cow etc and see how it makes you feel. |
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Air |
Breath |
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Find out that everything breathes in different ways (plants, fish, etc). |
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Air |
Breath |
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Find out that everything breathes in different ways (plants, fish etc.) |
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Air |
Breath |
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Notice how when you breathe in, you feel yourself, and when you breathe out you feel that you are connected with others. |
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Air |
Breath |
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Hold breath as long as possible - then imagine when you breath in it is daytime, when you breathe out it is nighttime (that is how fast a tree breathes). |
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Air |
Breath |
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"Breathing pillows" - invite the children to lie down with their heads on each other's tummies, to feel each other's breath. |
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Air |
Breath |
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Breathe in and then release the breathe with a beautiful sound. |
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Air |
Breath |
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Make a closed terrarium in a glass bottle. |
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Plants and trees |
Bushcraft |
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Tell stories about indigenous people and how they met all their needs from the local environment. |
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Plants and trees |
Bushcraft |
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Use a potato peeler to remove the bark of a green stick, e.g. to make dough sticks on the campfire. |
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Plants and trees |
Bushcraft |
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Decorate a talking stick and use it in a listening circle. |
