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Why should we teach our students about rainforests and jungles?
Why should we teach our students about rainforests and jungles?
Our jungles and forests are the lungs of the earth. They give us oxygen, they absorb our carbon and green house gases that we emit. They are the home of billions of organisms without whom there would be no sustainable food chains and webs.
Despairingly, our jungles and forests have been massively obliterated in recent years. Environmental scientists have warned that these trends cannot continue or our world as we know it will fail to thrive.
It is up to our educators to inspire and initiate conversations and actions to protect these biomes. A good place to start is through this Project-Based Learning plan.
We will cover multiple challenges of our jungles and forests, come face to face with the animals that call this green climate home and reflect on how our own actions can affect the future of this ecosystem.
Why Project-Based Learning?
Why Project-Based Learning?
Project-Based Learning allows for deeper connections between students and the content they're taking in. In my own experience with jungles, I had a unique opportunity to work as an archaeologist in Belize and Guatemala. Talk about Project-Based Learning! Not only did I learn about the ancient cultures I was there to study but I learned so much about the animals and the environment I was in. I had some amazing and inspiring teachers in the jungle who were truly experts in their craft who taught me things like how to dig without breaking building structures, how to identify bone fragments, how to read ancient hieroglyphic scripts, how to glue pots back together, even bat and jaguar biology! Though we can't take every student to physically experience the jungle, we can bring the jungle to our students in an interdisciplinary way.
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