Educational Workshop
A journey with Trees – Facilitator – Casparo Brown
(target age: 6-10 year olds)
The aim: to raise the awareness of the role of trees
A fun one and half hour journey through our shared interconnected history with trees and how they help us to live – using music and storytelling. The journey will explore how trees matter to us and what is happening to trees in the world today. We will study what we need to do to help trees in the future.
Basic structure of the sessions
The facilitator (Casparo Brown) will start by setting a scene where all the young people close their eyes and imagine that they are lost in the woods. This will be done to live music. Its getting dark and they have no idea where they are. It becomes apparent that they need to spend the night in the woods together. Together we explore the survival priorities, what they need to do to survive and in what order.
Air – Shelter – Water – Fire – Food
We investigate how everything we need to survive is linked to trees, not just out in the woods but in our everyday lives. The young people are encouraged to ask questions about all these issues.
Through games and the use of educational aids, young people will identify trees and match leaves and also animals to diverse tree habitats.
Becoming a Tree Guardian?
The young people will learn about nature awareness, scouting and tracking, all game related activities teaching how to walk in a natural setting with more awareness, how to notice details and to ask the right questions about the habitats where trees live. The will learn to see with “owl eyes” walk like a “fox” and listen with their “deer ears”.
The last part will start with a story called “the lorax” this will follow up with a discussion about what is happening to trees in the world and how it is linked to our lifestyles. Together we then explore possible solutions to the problems and threats that trees face and what we as a group can do to protect trees and enable them to prosper – children will learn about becoming “Tree Guardians.”
For bookings and more information, please contact Andreas Kornevall, Director of Operations – andreas at earthrestorationservice.org (written without the @ to avoid spam robots!)
Earth Restoration Service
Tel: 01273 479047
“Thank you so much for the fantastic workshops this week. I received lots of great feedback from the staff and children. See you again hopefully!”
Chris Bradshaw – Headteacher, Iford and Kingston Primary School
