Last week while the children responded to my question "What colours do you see in nature?" it became clear they didn't have a good understanding of what nature is and isn't. Debbie continued this idea and observed that some of the children were generalizing that anything outside is nature.
The children and I worked at developing criteria for nature on Monday and they sorted through pictures classifying them as nature or not nature. I heard a side conversation by Ryleigh and Sofia who were debating if Santa Clause was nature or not nature. Ryleigh thought Santa was nature. The debate was getting heated as Sofia tried to convince Ryleigh of her opinion and said in exasperation "Well does it grow on a tree??!!"
Today we fine-tuned the criteria and came up with . . .
It's nature if:
it comes from a plant
it's an animal
it comes from or is part of the earth
it's an animal
it comes from or is part of the earth
It's not nature if:
people have made it
The children took a camera outside and had an opportunity to take 2 photos: one of nature and one not nature. I put these pictures into a power point presentation and the children presented it to the others. Sadly I don't know if there's a way to attach the Power Point onto the blog!!
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