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Design |
Surveying the landscape and people |
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See a map being created |
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Design |
Surveying the landscape and people |
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Identify various patterns in many different places and in different scales e.g. branching/spirals |
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Design |
Surveying the landscape and people |
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Learn about the history of the place and indigenous/traditional knowledge in the area |
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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 |
Designing and deciding |
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Document a process in which they make a positive difference in their direct environment and/or community |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Use permaculture ethics and principles to make choices |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Find solutions to problems, through their own creative designs. The permaculture ethics and principles can help to get ideas or guide this. |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Create designs using drawing, model-making, post-its, sandbox, building bricks, ropes etc on site, or other appropriate method. |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Develop an aesthetic sense - noticing beauty and asking why is it beautiful - in appearance and in function (ingenious). |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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When experiencing a challenge, learn to appreciate it by remembering the attitudinal principle 'the problem is the solution' (e.g. find multiple perspectives, reverse the problem). |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Present their own design to friends, families, teachers, community etc in a form of their choice (e.g. drawing, singing, drama, art, video etc). |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Find out about the need for considering microclimate (sector planning) and zones when creating a permaculture design. |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Find out that permaculture design is all about making choices based on the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share; and that the permaculture principles can be used to help make these decisions. |
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Design |
Designing and deciding |
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Learn that the permaculture principles can be used to help make decisions to benefit all. |
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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 |
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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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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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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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). |
