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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Be involved in maintaining a system you designed (e.g. sell harvests to parents in a garden project, visit the local library in a reading project). |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Use imagination to come up with interesting names for the jobs that have to be done and create costumes for them e.g. knight is responsible for the tools in the shed. |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Document a project's process in order to enable other people to continue your work. |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Observe other people looking after a system (e.g. gardens etc), to see 'What is working well', 'what is taking a lot of work'. Where appropriate, consider questions such as 'Where are the tools placed, are they in the right place?' 'Does it taste good?' 'Do the people look happy?' |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Participate in organising a celebration. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Contribute to the wider community through voluntary work, and feel appreciated for it. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Play trust games. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Make a map of the neighbourhood with community resources labelled. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Learn about the local political systems and how party politics works. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Visit an intentional community (such as a housing cooperative, or ecovillage) and discuss how it differs from other communities. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Visit local places that serve the community e.g. fire station, hospital. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Go out camping and find out ways of keeping yourself warm. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Experience sitting in two different buildings in winter - a well insulated building and an uninsulated one. Discuss the differences. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Compare the insulation capacity of different building materials, e.g. comparing bracken with hay in a den. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Notice and discuss the insulation of different materials which you wear, i.e. clothes. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Make a draught excluder (e.g. a big sausage that goes on the floor in front of a door). |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Learn that hot air rises and cool air sinks. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Consider different methods of warming and cooling a building. |
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Soil and stone |
Indicator species |
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Create a story, poem or song about the need for plants to have their own niche (i.e. how different types of plants love being in different places). |
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Soil and stone |
Indicator species |
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Learn that an indicator species is one which, if abundant, healthy and spontaneous (not planted), can tell you something about the local conditions, such as a plant which tells you whether the soil is compacted, wet, dry, acidic, or alkaline. |
