Green Learnings
Reconnecting Children with Planet through awareness & engagements.
Integrating Nature into Education: A Call to Reconnect with the Environment
In today's fast-paced, digitized world, the bond between children and the natural environment is weakening. As work and learning increasingly shift online, it becomes harder for parents to limit their children's screen time. Richard Louv, in his book The Nature Principle, coined the term "nature-deficit disorder" to describe the growing disconnection between children and the outdoors. He argues that while technology offers new ways to explore, it cannot replace the genuine experiences provided by nature. This disconnection not only impacts children’s mental and physical health but also affects their social interactions, making this a critical issue that demands our attention.
- Digital Overload: Children are spending more time online, reducing their opportunities for outdoor play and exploration.
- Health Impacts: The weakening connection with nature is linked to negative effects on mental, physical, and social well-being.
- Environmental Awareness: There is a growing need to integrate environmental education into daily life to address these challenges.
The goal is not just to educate children about nature, but to immerse them in it. Through Green Learning, we aim to bridge the gap between the digital world and the natural environment, emphasizing the importance of sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Green learning explores environmental knowledge through six distinct themes:
Our Approach
Green Learning seeks to reconnect children with nature by integrating environmental education into their daily lives. This approach blends theoretical knowledge with hands-on activities, fostering a deep understanding of environmental issues and encouraging sustainable practices.
A Transformative Journey:
- Environmental Sessions: The journey begins with a strong foundation in understanding the importance of clean air, water, soil, and wildlife. Students are taught the significance of environmental conservation and sustainability, gaining insights into the challenges our planet faces.
- Hands-on Activities: Building on this knowledge, students engage in hands-on activities that bring these concepts to life. They learn to manage waste by separating it into wet and dry categories and explore creative ways to repurpose waste materials. These activities not only reinforce their understanding but also foster a sense of responsibility and empowerment to make a positive impact.
Enabling households with environment at core
Interaction with Nature The end objective of building empathy for the environment among our young ones cannot be fulfilled unless they heartily interact with elements of nature, connect with and feel their presence, and see them as fellow living entities. Green Learning emphasizes this as a key guiding principle during program execution.
Bringing Environmental Learning to Classrooms Another focus while imagining true environmental reform is to bring curiosity-driven environmental learning to our classrooms, where environmental learning becomes an important part of the learning ecosystem.
Linking Imagination with Reduce, Reuse, Recycle With an aim to link children’s imagination with the principle of reduce, reuse, and recycle, this principle is at the core of hands-on fun and learning activities under the program.
Impact in Action Children are periodically engaged in selected activities that produce direct visible impact, so that they imbibe the idea that with mass community action, any change is possible.
Our Children: Our Future Thought Leaders Like clockwork, the culture is to wrap up the program calendar with a platform where children present solutions for environmental conservation which they build along with our volunteers over weeks-long workshops. After all, our children have to be our future thought leaders.
Impact to date
300+
Children Engaged
100+
Annual Engagament & Awareness Hours
20+
Prototypes Developed by Children