Roots & Shoots - Observe Your School Environment

Students participate in a mapping exercise, working as a class to create a map of the human-made, animal and environmental features of their school. Students begin by clarifying their understanding of key terms relating to this lesson and then work as a class to walk around the school identifying and recording key human-made, animal and environmental features. Back in the classroom students work together to create a map of their school that incorporates the features they identified, with younger students adding photos and annotations to their map and older students creating and incorporating symbols to portray these features on their map. Finally, students reflect on how some of the features of their school could be improved.