Nurture Children's Understanding Of The Natural Environment and Our Planet
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:01 pm
Task 1- Understanding the environment
1. Provide two strategies outlining how you could, in consultation with children, nurture children's capacity to value and respect the broader environment and our plant? Within one of your strategies, outline how you have provided the children opportunity to drive the learning experience.
I am unsure about this one but does that mean how you can include the children in the environment like getting them to help plant a veg garden.
2. Provide two strategies outlining how you could, in consultation with children, nurture children's capacity to understand and appreciate the natural environment and the interdependence between people, plants, animals and land. Within one of your strategies outline how you have provided the children the opportunity to drive the learning experience.
We have 3 rabbits at childcare and the children help the educators to care for the rabbits. The children like to collect the rabbit container and fill it up with fresh water and collect the food container and help fill it up with pallets. The children also collect hay and put in the rabbit cage when the educators clean out the rabbit cage. The days that Jaxon attends childcare, he brings a fresh carrot in from home and feeds the rabbits every morning with his mum and this has helped with settling Jaxon into day care as he has had separation trouble when his mum leaves day care. The children love caring for the animals at daycare and understand the daily tasks of caring for animals.
Sally had been helping Poppy make plant some plants in his vegetable garden at home and Sally brought in a packet of seeds to day care for the educators to use. The children and the educators worked together to construct a vegetable garden. The children helped to plant a range of different seeds and the children helped to water the seeds and watch them grow slowly over time. When all the vegetables had grown nice and tall, the children picked some vegetables to feed to the rabbits. We have also been growing beetroot in the garden and when it was ready, we picked the beetroot and gave it to Karen in the kitchen and she washed it and cut it up into small pieces for the children to have a taste. A few children liked tasting the beetroot and a few didn’t.
1. Provide two strategies outlining how you could, in consultation with children, nurture children's capacity to value and respect the broader environment and our plant? Within one of your strategies, outline how you have provided the children opportunity to drive the learning experience.
I am unsure about this one but does that mean how you can include the children in the environment like getting them to help plant a veg garden.
2. Provide two strategies outlining how you could, in consultation with children, nurture children's capacity to understand and appreciate the natural environment and the interdependence between people, plants, animals and land. Within one of your strategies outline how you have provided the children the opportunity to drive the learning experience.
We have 3 rabbits at childcare and the children help the educators to care for the rabbits. The children like to collect the rabbit container and fill it up with fresh water and collect the food container and help fill it up with pallets. The children also collect hay and put in the rabbit cage when the educators clean out the rabbit cage. The days that Jaxon attends childcare, he brings a fresh carrot in from home and feeds the rabbits every morning with his mum and this has helped with settling Jaxon into day care as he has had separation trouble when his mum leaves day care. The children love caring for the animals at daycare and understand the daily tasks of caring for animals.
Sally had been helping Poppy make plant some plants in his vegetable garden at home and Sally brought in a packet of seeds to day care for the educators to use. The children and the educators worked together to construct a vegetable garden. The children helped to plant a range of different seeds and the children helped to water the seeds and watch them grow slowly over time. When all the vegetables had grown nice and tall, the children picked some vegetables to feed to the rabbits. We have also been growing beetroot in the garden and when it was ready, we picked the beetroot and gave it to Karen in the kitchen and she washed it and cut it up into small pieces for the children to have a taste. A few children liked tasting the beetroot and a few didn’t.
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