please read and discuss the following text with your students before proceding:
"We live in hopeful times when we, for the first time, are aware of the dead end we have entered into. Finding the way back on a global scale is a battle so monumental that we can only win it on personal grounds. That's tricky enough, yet more simple than thinking you have to take on the fate of the entire world. Because that fate is not on you.
But how? How can we feel connected to nature again? Perhaps the best place to experience the reciprocity between indoors and outdoors is the garden -or something close to a garden, a pot, a bed -because while you think you are taking care of the plants, the plants are taking care of you."
text: Nicole Ex, founding editor SeeAllThis, art magazine, summer 2023
You know there is nothing wrong with bringing plants in the classroom.
But make it into a contest:
Who's got the weirdest plant?
The smallest flower (when you have little space ..)
No room? Make it in a research project with names, stories and pictures.
Or who can grow the most potatoes in a bucket?
Or plant a tree on the way to school with your name on it, the tree will be there long after you have left school, etc.
Most probably you already have your special plant project, please send a picture so others may learn from all your hard work!
You can make this picture, with your smartphone. Try it!
Take a glass, water and a flower.
Photograph against the light (with your face to the light) not with the light on your back. Notice the difference!
See how close you can go, enlarge it before you take the picture if you have to.
See?
5 minutes, peanuts!
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