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Level Two (7-8 year olds)
Communicating
Climate Processes - Prime symbols:
Breath – Our greatest teacher; enhanced
meditations on the breath, especially the
out-breath; plants and animals breathe - simple meditations; introducing
the elementary physics of vacuums and diaphragms
Which inspires in us the combined senses of:
Change
Simple entropy – forms tend to pass (Example: tidy classroom
becomes untidy, our body gets hungry and thirsty)
And
Stewardship – concepts of balances and
harmony with forces enabling life (Goldilocks); pollution exists
Which in turn opens us to the
potential of the following great symbols:
Thermodynamics – measuring temperature
changes, warmed up air
rises/cooled air falls (lava lamp, joss sticks etc); introducing albedo effect
Trace - Counting 1000 steps, beans, pebbles,
stars etc; examples of tiny quantities of substances affecting our lives
(fragment of glass puncturing a tire, prickle in foot etc)
Gases – gases exist (e.g. water vapour, carbon dioxide,
oxygen,)
Air -consists
mainly of free flowing gases with mass; studying/celebrating bird
flight, kites, balloons, paper darts, propellers
Invisible – forces and the dances of
trees, grass, clouds, smoke etc
Water - simple meditating on change
(clouds); thermal effects and condensation/evaporation (cold mirrors,
terraria)
Sun –
Source of life on Earth;
Introduction
Note to Teachers Level
1
Level
3 Level 4
Page last updated:
Nov 2010
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