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List all the inputs and the outputs for a common human food (e.g. a can of juice), get creative, see how far you can go back (with inputs) and how far you can go forward (with outputs). Can you make it (this food or a replacement for it) a closed loop system (where the outputs from one thing become inputs for something else)? |
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Connect to your own impact on the rest of the Earth by celebrating the great things you already do. |
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Feel that everything has it's place and purpose in the world by doing the web of life activity. |
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Value diversity and the gifts diversity brings. |
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Learn the importance of the web of life and the benefits of diversity within it. |
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Think about how all living things are connected: e.g. through eating, excreting, breathing. |
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Explore how all living things depend on the sun, water, soil, air, and other plants, animals, fungi and bacteria to live, through matching cards with the different elements drawn on them. |
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Observe the sound landscape, listening for patterns (e.g. bird song, river etc.). |
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See branching and spiral patterns in different natural systems (e.g. water, flowers, growing plants). |
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Observe the similarities between human beings and other animals (eat, sleep, excrete...). |
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Spot the plants, insects or birds which are abundant in certain seasons. |
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Collect things which are abundant at that time of year: foraging (e.g. berries). |
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Create your own pattern (like a mandala, or spiral). |
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Make prints from leaves, bark, shells and other interesting natural textures and patterns. |
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Dance in a pattern, e.g. a spiral. |
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Play percussion instruments together, with groups following different rhythms that combine together like an orchestra. |
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Listen to stories about the patterns of nature - patterns of the seasons and other natural cycles. |
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Learn about the different seasonal patterns. |
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Learn about the different patterns which exist in nature (spiral, branching etc.). |
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See fractals (e.g. in a cauliflower, ferns). |
