Reflect on the following questions, take notes of your thoughts and share them.
Task 1
1. Think of how you used to acquire knowledge of the physical and natural world around you when you were a child.
a. How do you acquire that same knowledge today?
b. And how do children develop that knowledge today?
2. Are there any skills or information you learned from older people in your life without having to study them in a book or before checking them in a book? Cooking or gardening or recognising specific herbs in the garden, for example.
Task 2
1. What could you know of your habitat just by paying attention to the world around you? Think of the simplest things, for example, that water freezes into ice in the cold winter, and move towards more complex and specific notions in your own habitat.
a. Go outside, if possible, and make sketches, take photos or record voice memos of your local ecosystem. Please, try to approach this part of the activity in an embodied and experiential fashion.
b. What did you learn or discover that you didn’t know or notice before?
2. Share your visuals, notes and thoughts, along with a reflection on how physical engagement with your local environment made you feel.