This event is designed with the Greensteps triple focus method to achieve the following aims:

Direct aim: discover the freshwater plants of Shanghai

Indirect aims:
- Gross motor skills: paddling with a kayak, body control and balance on a kayak
- Fine motor skills: manipulate small objects and plants with delicacy
- Science skills: photosynthesis, freshwater ecosystem, lake cycles, water pollution, inertia, plants, algae and UW fauna.
- Language: English terminology for wetland and freshwater plants

Environmental intelligence:
- Practice: feeling and observing nature in a noninvasive way
- Observation: different water organism, various kinds of shoreline
- Deduction: the role of plants and algae in the freshwater ecosystem
- Change: building awareness on water resource protection

Interpersonal intelligence:
- Collaborate with a team and a buddy system
- Listening outside

Intrapersonal intelligence:
- Perceive one’s own state of mind in a natural environment
- Listening inside

Green Steps | 青阶

Green Steps provides fun outdoor experiential education for families, schools and companies by building appreciation and respect for the environment through original activities near Shanghai.

With Nature as the playground and laboratory, each experience is an opportunity for the participants to discover in-depth the natural processes that maintain the balance of the ecosystem and learn to interact with the Outdoors in fun and responsible ways.

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