Take Action
What did you discover on the field trip? Was your stream clean or polluted? Now that your class has investigated and explored its stream, it's time to take action!
This is the most important part of the programme. It’s the opportunity for students to put in to practice all that they have learned by doing something to help local biodiversity.
Students lead a Take Action project which targets biodiversity issue. After investigating and exploring the issue, students plan and take action to help the catchment and environment. Through evaluation and reflection the students monitor the success and ongoing requirements of their project. Soem examples of biodiversity action projects include:
- Planting native trees in school grounds to provide food for tui and kereru
- Restoring a local stream and monitoring koura
- Monitoring lizards in a local reserve
The teacher’s role is to encourage and support student ownership of the project.
Take Action for Water uses the inquiry learning approach to facilitate the Take Action process. There are many different inquiry learning models being followed in schools and many schools are defining their own school model. It is intended that schools will incorporate their own variant of inquiry learning into the take action process.
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