Before starting this module, I had little idea about the environment that I live in, and the extent of all the different things that happen in our surrounding environments. I was also unsure as to hoe you would discuss such topics in a classroom in a fun and informative way.
We were able to in a group walk around the university campus and take part in tasks which encouraged us to explore our environment, tasks such as looking for bugs and where they lived. Also, the many different types of trees and what grows from them and what this means. We discussed as a group that this would be a good task to carry out with children and when returning to the class the children could choose one bug or tree each and research them. Discovering their habitats and where they could be most likely to grow.
This could then lead to the children researching and being taught about the importance of taking care of the environment around them. Showing how if you do not recycle and be considerate of where you throw things away this will have a negative impact on the environment and the habitats where many animals and insects live. I felt this was an eye-opening task as you forget there are loads of other things going on around you and that we are not the only things living here, and so we need to start taking care of our environment for everything and everyone living in it.
