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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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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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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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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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Create own rituals about working together. |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Show gratitude to people who have helped with the project by inviting them to the site and offering a gift of the children's choosing (e.g. herbal tea from the garden). |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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List the tasks that will need to be done in the long term and create a chart for getting them done (e.g. watering garden, who'll do it in term-time and holidays?). |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Spot evidence of an animal eating a plant or animal. |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Hunt for signs of Funny Fungus' roots and fruits: look under logs for mycellium, around trees for mushrooms, mould on old fruit. |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Listen to a story about a tree, and how it is connected to each of different animals, mushrooms and plants (children can be included e.g. through climbing the tree, eating it's fruit etc). |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Listen to stories about connections, such as the books "All I see is a part of me" by Chara Curtis, "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess, "Uno's Garden" by Graeme Base. |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Express how you feel about something natural through interacting with it, e.g. hug a tree, stroke an animal, smell a flower, jump in a puddle, slide in mud. |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Find out about fungus and explore the big family of nature. |
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Connections |
The web of life |
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See and experience diverse natural systems, with lots of different types of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria. |
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Connections |
The web of life |
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Experience a natural system (e.g. a native woodland) whilst blindfolded, how many different bird songs can you catch? How many different species can you feel/smell/hear? |
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Connections |
The web of life |
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Participate in the web of life activity: In a circle each person takes the role of a natural element (e.g. river/oak tree/mosquito/swallow). One person has a ball of string, s/he says what connections she has to another element (e.g. swallow eats fly; bat lives in tree) and throws the string to them, whilst keeping hold of the end of the string. This repeats until everybody is connected with the string in a web. It can continue until elements have many connections. Discuss that the string represents the invisible connections between all life. Observe what happens if one element is destroyed (meaning the child releases the string they are holding), continue taking out the elements and observe what happens to the web of life. |
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Connections |
The web of life |
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Experiment with growing seeds: compare seeds which are given most their needs but no water, to one which has no sun, or air, or if a seed has all it's needs met. |
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Connections |
The big family of nature: all of nature is connected and we all need each other |
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Draw, paint or model clay about a connection between a plant or animal and something else. |
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Connections |
The web of life |
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Stay overnight in the wood to get deeper connections to nature and each other. |
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Connections |
The web of life |
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List all the inputs and the outputs for a common plant or animal (different groups could take different plants/animals), get creative, see how many inputs/outputs you can list. Draw the connections with other plants and animals, can you draw it into a closed loop system where all the outputs become inputs for something else? |
