Tag Archives: ecological awareness
Teaching the Future: The Ecology of a Graceful Education
After a month and a half writing up the theory behind my aspect of the project in the Overberg the final thesis is finally complete, including a full curriculum review of the adventures of the Eco-Crew and a lesson plan on future visioning for TWK. Find the full PDF here.
Eco-Ed in the Garden of Eden
We met with Eco-Ed, a group who run nature based education programmes for children in the forests between the village of Knysna and the town of Plettenberg Bay. We wanted to share ideas and discover how and why they run their lessons and in particular do they successfully engage with adolescents from different ethnic groups. […]
Shark eggs on Grotto Beach
On Friday we caught up with Shirley from the Eco-Schools programme again to go and collect shark eggs on grotto beach. The eggs are counted over several years to build up a picture of the species of sharks in the nearby waters, as well as some of their habits. This exercise was a great opportunity […]
An Alien Adventure, in pictures
Carly picks wattle from the riverbank. The wattle is highly invasive and forces out other species wherever it grows. Noel takes on a substantial pine tree. Pine trees are a particular problem when there is threat of fire. Not only do they ignite easily, but they burn so hotly that the ground around them is […]
Fundraising and tree-planting
Mind maps and fundraising An opportunity arose for the Eco-crew to sing their Eco-rap song at the night market at Via’s in Greyton. This Friday night! Charles decided that a part of creative leadership skills could involve fund raising and that it is an important skill for the group to learn. After brain storming possibilities […]
An Alien Adventure
What we did and how it happened… Today was a turn around of the teenager’s energies and we all went home, as the sky was darkening- tired but satisfied. We spent the morning clearing alien tree species from the river bed (probably over 100) and then learnt how to mix nutritious soil for Spekboom and […]
The Adventures of the Eco-Crew: Vol. III
We had a very special day lined up for the Eco-Crew on Wednesday morning. Marshall, a local guide and bass player for the Country Conquerors (the world’s only Afrikaans reggae group) had agreed to take us on a medicine walk through the foothills between Genadendal and Greyton. We started early when the mist was still […]
The Adventures of the Eco-Crew: Vol. I
Today saw our second lesson with our group from Emil Weder. In an effort to recruit more students from Grade 10 Megan and I gave short presentations first thing. As with yesterday, many students were not in school or were in and out of the class, and the challenge we faced was to instill some […]
Experiencing the first lesson plan at Emil Weder high school
Today we began our ‘class’ with the adolescents and the immediate difficulties were evident. The school was very disorganised being their last week of term and students had little to do and most were in the hall watching DVDs. Why start a new ‘course’ when you can just hang out? From the original Grade 10 […]
Ecological awareness programme beginnings….
THE ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS PROGRAMME This is a programme for a peer group of adolescents from Emil Weder School in Genadendal near Greyton SA. We met with the Geography teacher and the Principal who were fully supportive of such a programme (if it did not use up school class time.) Charles and I met with Helene […]
Endless River: Transition in the Overberg 