'Funky Forest' is an ecosystem that children can interact with and create trees with their body and then divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and also the various types of creatures that inhibit it.
The ultimate goal of this immersive, interactive ecosystem was to create an open system that would allow children to play and see how their actions affect the ecosystem. This goal was achieved the children loved it! Especially when they realized that the creatures would fly away when they got too close and they spent hours trying to trap them.
Children to learn by doing is they best way to learn, putting them in control of the ecosystem teaches them an important lesson which would hopefully stick with them for life. This project is also very fun for the children to take part in which also aids the learning process.
This is a radical method to teach, which is very clever and i think more of these kind of projects should be done.
The best way to teach is by interaction and hands on experience that you can relate to this is a very clever solution. Providing the opportunity for kids to see how everything is linked and reliant on other things is not an easy task. It is a fairly large concept. But this does it without saying anything because they can see it. Excellent.
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