LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This event is designed with the Greensteps triple focus method to achieve the following aims:

Direct aim: Learn to appreciate and respect the importance of wetlands as bird sanctuaries

Indirect aims:
- Gross motor skills: body control in difficult terrain, swim (weather dependent)
- Fine motor skills: manipulate binoculars
- Science skills: use of ID cards, identifying bird species, observing animal behavior (ethology)
- Language: English terminology for birds and ecology

Environmental intelligence:
- Practice: feeling and observing nature in a noninvasive way
- Observation: bird communities, wild aspect of wetland
- Deduction: wetlands are crucial for life on earth
- Change: how to protect wetlands

Interpersonal intelligence:
- Collaborate with a team
- Listening outside

Intrapersonal intelligence:
- Perceive one’s own state of mind in a natural environment
- Listening inside

Green Steps | 青阶

Green Steps provides fun outdoor experiential education for families, schools and companies by building appreciation and respect for the environment through original activities near Shanghai.

With Nature as the playground and laboratory, each experience is an opportunity for the participants to discover in-depth the natural processes that maintain the balance of the ecosystem and learn to interact with the Outdoors in fun and responsible ways.

www.greensteps.com.cn