Create a micro wildlife reserve and show it to your friends.
To Value the Outdoors
- Enjoy being outside, feel comfortable in nature and feel connected to the natural environment.
Help your Community
- Be able to take an active role in the community, give to others and make the world a better place.
- Everyone should talk about Nature Reserves and National Parks. Think about how they were set up and what they aim to do.
- Highlight that there is usually something special or unique to that area that the reserve or park will be based around.
- Everyone should split into pairs or Patrols.
- Each Patrol should create their own micro wildlife reserve.
- Each Patrol should explore the area and find something that will be the centrepiece of their reserve or park.
- Each Patrol needs to mark the edges of their reserve or park, using a hula hoop, rope or something similar to
- form a boundary around their centrepiece.
- Each Patrol should talk about why they chose that area and why it should be protected. They should showcase their micro wildlife reserve to the other Patrols.
For less of a Challenge
- Mark out the nature reserves ahead of time.
- Allocate one to each Patrol.
For more of a Challenge
- Create a task in the style of ‘The Apprentice.’
- Ask the Patrols to turn their showcase into a pitch.
- The best pitch will win funding for the creation of a nature reserve.
This activity was all about valuing the outdoors and helping your community by noticing things in your local environment that you want to protect.
- Why do we need to protect areas of nature?
- What would happen to people, plants and animals if we didn’t protect them?
- How do you feel when you spend time out in nature?
Everyone selected a different area to protect, which had something special or unique.
- How did you choose the area for your micro nature reserve or national park?
- Why did you feel like that was something worth protecting?