What can we learn by listening to other species?

Posted on June 15, 2024 by Rebecca Ostler

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Age: Key Stage 2-3


Overall aim: To generate tricky questions, to work together to explore them, to consider if, why and how we should care for our planet

Description:

Some of the tricky questions pupils will engage with:

  1. Why are other species important?
  2. What can other species contribute to the ecological debate?
  3. How can we work to restore nature?

Topics pupils engage with::

  1. The Sycamore Gap tree. Exploring how important this act is, and what action could be taken.
  2. Learning about elephants as ecological gardeners, and how animals, such as chimpanzees, work with humans.
  3. Exploring the question of what we share with other species and how we differ, drawing on the insights of Jane Goodall
  4. Considering the guidance the Bible provides regarding the natural world, looking at different interpretations of key texts
  5. Asking what can we do to restore nature and the idea of an ecologically focussed Shabbat/Sabbath

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