2. Nature in Our Cities

2. NATURE IN OUR CITIES

UAB CAMPUS

Forest

Fields

GREEN SPACES IN OUR CITIES

In-Field research...

What can be observe here?

RESEARCH

NATURE GUIDE

OTHER SCHOOLS Nature Guides

Students will:

Share our culture and learn about the cultures of our international peers.
Research a Green space near our school or in our city.
Do field research to analyze the green space.
Learn how people use and access nature in their peers’ schools.
Give feedback to our international peers.

2. NATURE IN OUR CITIES

UAB CAMPUS

Escola Bellaterra is located inside the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) campus. There are fields, gardens, squares and forests inside the campus. In fact, our school is surrounded by a green area of pine trees and silver poplars.

The Campus is located in Bellaterra, inside the municipality of Cerdanyola del Vallès. There are a high number of families that live in Cerdanyola and families that father/mother works in the University facilities.

Green areas nearby our school:

Forest

We often go out (once per trimester/month/week), depending on the age of the students, to play, study, investigate...

Fields

UAB Campus has different landscapes: foresty, agricultural...

GREEN SPACES IN OUR CITIES

A green space nearby our school (less than 200 m far from it) where we often go to work, study, observe, investigate, relax...

In-Field research...

What can be observe here?

RESEARCH

In groups, we stablish that we were going to the Bosquet to observe details such us: landscape characteristics, health & culture, access & recommendations, flora, fauna...

This is the text we create:

All PARTS!

NATURE GUIDE

The observations of our in-field research were the seed for our next digital project. The Global Scholars task was to create a NATURE GUIDE of a green space close to our school. We choose the "Bosquet" or Little forest in Catalan.