Action Learning Plan

Effective Environmental Education

• Observes and honours what is local
• Incorporates a variety of learning and teaching methods
• Integrates throughout the curriculum
• Can use digital, and must use non-digital tools

Action Learning

Learning log/s

• Space for images, events, quotes, sounds, interviews etc
• Prompts such as...
  • I was surprised that
  • I really enjoyed it how
  • I felt that the
  • I liked learning

Can be used to create the Pool of Knowledge - Puna Matauranga
using the tools below

Brainstorming

• Key words, spiders, mind maps, free sketch etc
  • Reflection - why?
    • Pooling knowledge, sharing our thoughts etc

Experiential learning

• Listen count/record nature versus humanity made sounds
• Rope tied in loop, group blindfolded/eyes shut
  • Holding rope/wool everyone creates a shape - square etc
    • try also holding hands in group
• Cloud spotting - types if known, direction, shapes etc
  • Reflection - why?
    • Here and now, observational, leadership, team, environmental, secure, informed decisions, imagination

Mapping

• Mental maps of area/surroundings - blank paper/screen
• Sound/colour maps

1. Student in centre, records direction of sounds/colours
2. Walk through area record on map sounds/colours
3. Overlay maps

• Scale maps - big maps of small places
• Sculptured maps

Pool of Knowledge - Puna Matauranga

• Is a visual display tool which shows the development of ideas and understandings
• Records responses and understandings
• Assists students to retain control of their own learning
• Facilitates collective learning
• Is a participatory way of building a picture
• Allows critical evaluation of values and actions

Purakau

• Traditional stories/legends
• A way to explore cultural knowledge
• Provide an opportunity to understand many aspects of the life of early Maori

Reflective Techniques

• Students choose a picture from a random pile of pictures the one which most represents

1. Something important about the experience
2. Their best experience
3. What they wished it had been like
4. Their part in the activity
5. What the group was like
6. Their hopes for the next activity, etc, etc

• • Wikimedia Creative Commons - picture of the day

• Group Collage
  • A picture containing a picture/message

1. Any materials or images collected
2. Individuals explain reason for selection