This event is designed with the Green steps triple focus method to achieve the following aims:
Direct aim: Learn to appreciate and respect the biodiversity of city parks
Indirect aims:
- Gross motor skills: body control in difficult terrain
- Fine motor skills: manipulate small objects
- Science skills: matching, pairing and classifying objects
- Language: bilingual terminology for local plants and ecology
Environmental intelligence:
- Practice: feeling and observing nature in a noninvasive way
- Observation: there are many different families of plants and animals
- Deduction: living things are not restricted to animals
- Change: how children interact with and view nature
Interpersonal intelligence:
- Collaborate with a team
- Listening outside
Intrapersonal intelligence:
- Perceive one’s own state of mind in a natural environment
- Listening inside
ABOUT GREEN STEPS
At Green Steps, we have made it our mission to connect children with nature and develop environmental knowledge. We believe that learning must be fun and as educators, we nurture the curiosity to explore the outdoors. We believe a change in our behavior towards the planet starts by understanding the process that maintains life on it. This change starts when we become aware and responsible for our intimate connection to nature. We teach hands-on natural sciences using the outdoors as a playground and laboratory.
At Green Steps, we have further developed the Montessori Method and apply it to nature education. We have designed a triple focus curriculum, which builds simultaneously intrapersonal, interpersonal and ecological intelligence. Instead of forcing children to study indoors, we facilitate learning outdoors. Chinese proverb pins down our learning approach when applied to nature: Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; let me do it and I’ll understand.