How a teacher could teach children to care for nature
The teacher encourages the student to care for the place that they live in, plants, and animals on this planet. Learn and appreciate the nature and planet that they are living in.
Introduce the topic of nature with an open-ended question: Let's the students write down what they think about nature and What is nature? Nature is the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.
Continue with another question: What is the natural world? Children view the world around us differently than adults. As they grow and they develop their own perspective about what they see the world around them and learn about nature when they have a chance to explore outside play, visit, and travel.
Children learn best when they get support from the knowledge and enthusiastic adults. Therefore, adults such as teachers, parents, families who model environmentally responsible behavior, thoughts, and actions that can make a positive difference to the children how to take care of the world around them. Collect the garbages, litter, and enjoy the beauty of the natural scenes of plants, trees, and animals discovered. This could be a long project for teaching, learning, and exploring/investigating with the children.
How important is nature? Nature is very important as humans have needed to survive and thrive, as provided by the natural world around us: food, water, medicine, materials, for shelter, and even natural cycles such as climate and nutrients. Nature is our sole supplier. Some animals give us food. Nature is also important for animals and plants too.
Children know how important nature is and what the natural supply to them is every day and provide a food chain for our planet. They could walk outside of the school to explore nature and get the clues. Children could map what is their life relate to nature with some guide questions:
What is the best place for animals to find food?
Where are sources of water?
What and where do animal shelters?
How can they prevent danger, hazards, and where are the safe places?
What possible sources of pollution?
And more questions can come up from the children's curiosity.
Children could collect information and write it down in any form they like:
Write the story
Write a song,
Create a poem,
Short play or something else.
Create a list of learning with the children
The circle of life
What lives in the school grounds.
The life cycle of animals
Find and collect Frogspawn.
The life cycle of plants.
More topics depending on the area that children are interested in….
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