LEARNING PATHWAY CREATED BY THE LEARNING COMMUNITY
Risks And Reflection
Authors: P. Kelly, T. Mclaughlin, L. Dunne
Overall aims:
- Deepening the understanding of sustainability
- Explore their place in the ecosystem
- Explore core values
- Explore reflective practice
- Explore their place in the movement toward a more sustainable Europe
- Explore their place in the conversations around climate change, biodiversity and social justice
- Learn to assess risk
- Develop fine motor and gross motor skills
Intended learning outcomes:
The child will be able to:
- Understand more of the complexities, contradictions and uncertainties of sustainability
- Have a more solid understanding of their place in the ecosystem
- Know what their emerging core values are
- Be able to reflect on actions
- Know their place and responsibility in the movement towards a more sustainable Europe
- Be able to confidently assess risk and engage in more complex and risky learning units
- Have the understanding and resilience to engage in more worrying conversations about sustainability
Evaluation:
Through attuned interactions and relationships, natural conversations and play episodes, the teacher gathers data to document the children’s learning.
Pathway structure
Stage I – Oceans Health
Reinforce understanding of the relationship between the Ocean and the weather and human life
Stage II – Save our Seas
Build Model of A healthy sea and then pollute it and clean it.
Stage III – Beach day
Organise a Leave No Trace Beach day.
