Seasons South and North : Teaching Global Nature
Seasons South and North is a collection of lessons and activities to accompany The Big Field : A Child’s Year Under the Southern Cross and to help children to understand and appreciate nature in the northern and the southern hemispheres. It covers many subjects in the early years and primary curriculum requirements and is filled with explanations, activities, games, discussion topics and many suggested websites. Seven new lessons on teaching nature more generally and two new charts have been added. An invaluable tool for parents and teachers alike.
ISBN: 9791096085071
Language: English
Pages: 88
Paperback
Weight: 0.71 lbs.
Dimensions (inches): 8.5 wide x 11 tall
Price: $9.99 on Lulu.com Soon to be available on Amazon.com.
A fundamental part of Early Years education is the explanation of the earth’s movement around the sun and the consequent seasons of the year. With that comes the awareness that the seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres occur at different times of the year. There are many, many books to explain the northern hemisphere’s seasons to children, but very few about the seasons of the southern hemisphere. The Big Field fills that gap.
The National Curriculum Key Stages 1 and 2 subjects for which The Big Field can be used are:
- Geography
- Land Use/Agriculture
- The Environment
- Places
- The solar system
- Weather
- Science
- Life processes and living things
- Animals and plants
- General
- Ourselves and our families
- History
- Emigration, causes and effects
- Art
- Making things from what we find in nature
For Older Children
Like Granny in The Big Field, you can save your forests too
You probably have seen already many films and documentaries about global warming and its many causes: pollutions from all kinds of machines, the loss of trees and plants everywhere. It seems huge and it seems scary and depressing, making us feel there is nothing we can do. But we can do something.
We can plant trees, just like Granny in The Big Field. There are almost seven billion people on Earth. If everyone planted just one tree, we could bring back our forests: clean air, cooler temperatures, homes for insects, small mammals, and birds, shade for ourselves. All you have to do is find a patch of land and plant a seed. How? Easy.
- Land : have you a garden? Do you live near a park? Is there an empty patch of earth nearby? Have you got a little field you can forget to plough? Plant in a flowerpot and watch your tree grow. Then find a patch of land where you can plant it when it gets too big for the pot.
- Seeds : are everywhere, especially in the autumn. Look in the trees and on the ground. Gather some and plant them in your patch of earth. Get a packet of seeds from the gardening shop and plant them.
- Water : if you plant what grows in your area naturally, you do not need to worry much about water. Find out what your native species are and plant where the rain can reach your patch of land.
Keep planting seeds as often and in as many patches of land as you can. Some won’t survive and some will, as is always the case in nature, but the more you plant, the more there will be that survive, and the better our world will be.
Have fun!