This week we continue our learning time outside our focus this week is examining ecosystems and biodiversity right in our own school ground. We are loving learning outside. Here are some of benefits we've notice already, we are creative, collaborative and we are using our critical thinking skills in unique ways.
On Monday we took on the David Suzuki Learning task of using our senses to explore our school field now, then imagine what the school land would have been like in the past. How has the ecosystem changed? What sounds, smells, sights and tastes would you have experienced?
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| students find a quite space in the field and use their senses to take in their surrounding |
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| students use their journals to record their thoughts and imaginings |
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| Found evidence of human development and human impacts on nature |
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| more sketching |
At the end of this task we decided to pick up some of the garbage around the side of the school that has collected over the last few months. We know the importance of protecting and conserving the small ecosystems that support our school.
Here are some photos:
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| careful gathering of garbage |
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| The debris that we collected. |
Today we picked a small ecosystem to explore. We have set up a field scientist page in our visual sketch journals to zoom in on specimens and sketch them. We are going to observe, wonder and infer. Ask deep thinking questions and make connections back to all of our learning. Here are some photos of our work this morning:
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