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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn about ancient traditions of food where you live - what did people eat before there were shops with food from all over the world? |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Find out about how far your food travels before you eat it (go to a supermarket and find out the countries where the ingredients for a meal came from) calculate how many miles were in your meal. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn how to read a recipe by practicing together. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Identify less common vegetables and fruits available in the local environment, including ones which grow wildly e.g. nettles, cuckoo flower, etc. |
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Buildings |
Homes |
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See different types of animals and their ways of making shelters/homes. |
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Buildings |
Homes |
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Build homes for fairies and/or animals using natural materials (sticks, stones, etc.) |
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Buildings |
Homes |
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Buildings |
Homes |
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Think about what would make a home or bug hotel cosy and lovely for the inhabitants - thinking about the aesthetics. |
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Buildings |
Homes |
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Find out what kind of different homes animals and people need. |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Visit a greenhouse (e.g. in a botanic garden) and notice the differences/ similarities between the different climates created. |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Design a home for people or an animal that takes into account the climatic effects of a particular region. |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Learn appropriate design for the major climatic regions of the world (food, lifestyle, building, disasters). |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Find out about the causes and effects of climate change. |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Find out about the diversity of climates around the world and the different biotopes. |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Participate in a talking circle in which everyone expresses how they feel about the impacts of humans on the climate. |
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Air |
How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Write about a climate and imagine what it feels like, e.g. "I am a desert, I am hot and dry. The winds blow and whip up my sands." |
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Design |
Implementation: making it happen |
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See an implementation plan and experience how following it can help get things done (e.g. implementing an anti-bullying policy prepared by children). |
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Design |
Implementation: making it happen |
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Be involved in the implementation of their design (e.g. collecting materials, creating a garden, hosting a party, organising an event). |
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Design |
Implementation: making it happen |
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Meet regularly to celebrate tasks completed. |
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Design |
Implementation: making it happen |
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Create a colourful implementation plan together with interesting and fun names which shows all the information needed to get things done: tasks, timeline, roles, work flows (whether 1 thing needs done before another) and ask who would be passionate about doing them. |