ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:
OCTOBER 2019
ID: P10
This activity is designed as a follow-up to the activity OUR NATURAL HERITAGE (P9). It aims to foster critical thinking through teaching environmental science in a cultural context, which is our sectoral priority. However, the activity does not need to be implemented by the same group of students who participated in P9.
PARALLEL STAGE: Pupils locate their findings from P9 within cultural artefacts (both tangible and intangible). The activity focuses on discovery and exploration, encouraging pupils to find and bring to school stamps, banknotes, legends, songs, and other artefacts that feature an element of natural heritage (endemic species or natural sites).
INTERACTION FOLLOW-UP STAGES: In the interactive and follow-up stages of the activities, partners share their findings and reimagine each other’s natural heritage in the activity DESIGN STAMPS AND MONEY (P11).
NATIVE PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF CYPRUS
Here's the work from the students of 5 Blue and 5 Green on how the endemic species of Cyprus have filtered into folkatles, artefacts, and songs:
SPAIN:
La Cabrentà.
One of the few specimens of the Mediterranean jungle. Among huge rocks that seem set by giants, there is a humid forest of incalculable value, unique in the Valencian Community: la Cabrentà. Its situation is close to Anna's lagoon, two kilometers away, and is located in the municipality of Estubeny (Valencia). The Municipal Natural Park 'La Cabrentà', with an area of 1.41 ha, was declared PNM by agreement of the Consell of the Generalitat dated April 2, 2004. This paradise of nature appears surpringly in the valley that the Sellent river has dug in the mountains. La Cabrentà or Selva de Estubeny is an invaluable botanical, fauna and geological value.
Memories of wet times.
Resigned to the thicket, grateful to the pine forests, admired before the few kermes oaks that we have left, this place take us one step further, until a time when the weather Valencian, damper, allowed broad and soft leaf forests.
Welcome to the jungle
FLORA
Plants are the great natural value of La Cabrentà and those that provide importance exceptional. It's like that because it's about a forest of laurel and hackberry, two trees that don't happen together in any other place of Valencian geography. The density of its shadow causes a subtropical appearence, to the one that contributes the abundance of vines like ivy and rough bindweed. There is also some pomegranates, which contribute with their fruits and autumnal colouring to complement the colour palette of this exceptional enclave. In the sunniest places there are also thyme and winter savory.
FAUNA
Fauna is of relative importance, given the measured size of the place. Even so, and by its leafiness and proximity to the river Sellent, is an ideal place to listen to the songs of tens of species of birds that come, attracted for the shade and freshness that provides the forest and for its varied fruits. Among they stand out the jay, the oriole and the nightingale.
POLAND: