Exposure Walks
How it runs
The manual gives this session no step list. What it does give is below.
Forest Walk, pitched to the age of the students and the size of the batch.
Duration – 3-4 hours
Delhi is one of the greenest capital cities in the world and the air in it is filthy. Both are true at once, and a forest walk is where students feel that contradiction instead of reading about it. Sanjay Van, the Asola Bhatti wildlife sanctuary, the Okhla bird sanctuary — city forests, reachable on a school morning, with far more living in them than students expect. Go with somebody who knows the plants and birds by name; a walk with a guide is a different event from a walk. Any city can do this. The nearest ridge, reserve forest, riverbank or old park with real trees in it will do.
Talking about it
Discussion points, worked examples and the handouts the manual prints with this session.
More from the manual
Forest Walk, pitched to the age of the students and the size of the batch.
Duration – 3-4 hours
Delhi is one of the greenest capital cities in the world and the air in it is filthy. Both are true at once, and a forest walk is where students feel that contradiction instead of reading about it. Sanjay Van, the Asola Bhatti wildlife sanctuary, the Okhla bird sanctuary — city forests, reachable on a school morning, with far more living in them than students expect. Go with somebody who knows the plants and birds by name; a walk with a guide is a different event from a walk. Any city can do this. The nearest ridge, reserve forest, riverbank or old park with real trees in it will do.
Where this comes from
Bridge the Gap is a compilation. This is what the manual records for this session.
The manual prints no source for this session. It is published here as Swechha has used it, adapted over years of classroom work; if you recognise its origin, tell us and we will credit it.
Before you start sets out where the compendium as a whole comes from.
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Sketching TreesTrees and Forests, 3 of 4The theme
Trees and Forests4 sessions and the background readingAll eight themes
Teach43 sessions across 8 themesUnderstand the data
- Forest cover or tree cover?Two official classes with two different definitions — and neither of them means "forest".
- Is India losing forest?India's own report says the forest grew. The satellites say it went. Both are right.
- What does tree-cover loss mean?A satellite measurement of canopy disappearing — which is not the same as deforestation.