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WCC 2016 Res 084 - Activity Report

Submitted by Weihua.XIN on Fri, 01/26/2018 - 01:35
General Information
Environmental education and how to naturalise the spaces in educational centres for healthy development and a better childhood connection with nature
IUCN Constituent: 
Beijing Xicheng District Evergreen Center For Sustainable Development
IUCN Constituent type: 
IUCN Member
Period covered: 
2017
Geographic scope: 
South and East Asia
Country/Territory: 
China
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Members: 
No other Members are/have been involved
IUCN Commissions: 
F117E09E-5094-E611-97F4-005056BA6623
IUCN Secretariat: 
No
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Education/Communication/Raising awarenessEnvironmental PBL(Problem/Project based learning) education is providing in these community centers. Such as garbage classification, nature corner establishing, photo voice etc. Children are asked to solve the environmental problems and doing the project. They are making their community better and at the same time improve their teamwork, problem solving skills, and global views. And Green Leader Volunteer Day will be hold every year, inviting the volunteers from community center and colleges, they will make presentation about what they are doing for environmental protection. On-going
Education/Communication/Raising awarenessMaking community center to becoming environmental education center. We established nature corner both in and out of community center, to make more city children connect with nature. Including ecological garden, book shelf for nature, nature science corner. Now we are running 4 community centers in Beijing, and 3 in other cites, Qingdao, Hefei and Xi'an.Before, these urban community center seldom provide education to nearby citizens, enviromental education was even less. So we are going to changing these community center into environmental education center. On-going
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken: 
Until now, we made one community center into green, and are going to make more community center to be green.
We already invited one child from the community center who joined a PBL project to share his experience in the Green Leader Volunteer Day, he introduced garbage classification to his school.
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Future ActionDescription
Education/Communication/Raising awarenessEvery community center will become a green life center, including nature science corner, ecological garden, nature bookshelf, and environmental PBL education program, nature lectures, reading party about nature.We will use environmental friendly way to do the community building, make more citizens to know nature, and become nature friendly citizens.
Education/Communication/Raising awarenessMake more community center into environmental education center, hope to make every community has a place to encourage urban citizens connect with nature, and could get knowledge about nature.