2. ‘Giving Nature’- Our Design
We, Class 2B of Pant Nagar
Municipal English School,
conducted a Design for
Change- Giving Nature.
Our project is all about
Recognizing the giving
quality of nature…….FEEL.
Giving back to nature what
we take from
them……IMAGINE AND
DO.
Recognizing our own giving
nature and spreading joy
through it….SHARE.
3. We Feel: Day 1 & 2
Our children did not recognize the things nature
gives us and how important they are for us to live
So we went on a Nature Trail to Sanjay Gandhi
National Park.
We experienced nature at its best- a paradise
amongst a concrete jungle.
We learnt about tiny, tiny unique animals
We observed their different houses: a folded leaf,
a basket, a hill, a trapdoor
(Support Courtesy: Sanctuary Magazine)
4. We Feel: Day 1 & 2
We witnessed how it felt to see and play in crystal clear
water.
We felt the delicateness of nature and the urgency of our
problem.
We realized that our lives depend on these tiny animals
surviving and nature remaining in balance
We came back refreshed and ready to make a change
5. We Imagine: Day 3
We saw a couple of short movies on the beauty of
Earth and how mankind is affecting it adversely
We thought about how WE can give back to
nature using worksheets, activities, games and
making posters
From this we came up with 2 solutions:
Do not throw garbage. Use it productively.
Do not cut trees. Take care of them and plant more.
6. We Do: Day 4
So we set about implementing our solutions.
First we collected lots of waste materials and
turned them into useful items like:
Recycled paper out of old newspaper and natural
colours
Wind chimes from plastic cups and friendship
bands/ ribbons/ scrap cloth
Flower vases from glass and plastic bottles, leaves
and tape
Cloth Bags from old T-shirts (without sewing!!)
7. We Do: Day 7
We also took care of 6 plants for a week and then
went and planted them in a barren land.
But we wanted to do much more. So we thought of
planting custard apple plants as the seeds were
readily available.
And we planted 116 of those! We will continue to
track their progress.
These seeds will help enrich barren deforested hills
in Thane
(Support Courtesy: Hariyali NGO)
8. We Share: Day 5
After doing all of this and seeing for ourselves
that we CAN make a difference, we wanted to
share our success with others.
So we thought about the different people to
whom we could explain our project. We wanted
them to start making items out of waste like we
had and start taking better care of plants.
So we targeted 4 main groups.
9. We Share: Day 6
A Public Rally
• We conducted it around the school
• We told the people we met about our work and how they can
contribute
Our School
• We involved our school mates in making the items
• We also involved them in taking care of the plants
Other Schools
• We shared our work with the 5 other schools in our building.
• We shared it with the principle, teachers and children and
encouraged them to take it up too.
Our Parents and Elder Siblings
- We shared with them the importance of conserving nature.
- We also shared with them the ways in which they can turn
common waste into useful items.
- We then set about making items with waste with them.
10. WE CAN!—Impact
On the whole we impacted 220 people and we are
sure they went and shared what they learnt at home
or with other children.
Everyday, the kids find new things to reuse and new
ways to use waste material. Just the other day, we
used chocolate wrappers to wipe our laminated
worksheets!
We are more aware of nature around us and no
longer pluck leaves or flowers from trees and are
going around encouraging people to do the same.
11. WE CAN!—The Future
We will not end with this
project. Over the year, we
plan to start a garden in
school.
We plan to have monthly
sessions on turning waste
that we collect into useful
items
We will also continue to
visit the 116 seeds we
planted and take care of
them.
It has only just begun!!!
