NATURALISTIC INTELLIGENCE
HISTORY
- Recognize & interpret historical trends (e.g. Toynbee)
- Understand how “natural events” have influenced historys
- Create analogies between historical events & events in nature
- Study how animals have effected history & historical trends
- Study the lives of famous naturalists & their impact on history
MATHEMATICS
- Work story problems with patterns in nature
- Use of “nature manipulatives” in math problem-solving
- Graph positive & negative influences on the environment
- Understand the mathematical patterns of the natural world & environment
- Create & work calculation problems based on nature/natural processes
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Nature scene re-creation/simulations for literature & poetry
- Poetic/descriptive essay writing based on nature experiences
- Learn & practice using the vocabulary, idiom, jargon, & vernacular of the nature & the naturalist
- Understand influences of climate/environment on various authors
- Creative story-writing using animal characters & their characteristics
SCIENCE
- Classify different foods for healthy diet planning
- Experience past scientific experiments “first hand” (do them!)
- Keep a diary of the natural processes of your own body
- Use of various “naturalist taxonomies” on nature field trips
- Use cognitive organizers to explore & understand natural scientific processes
GEOGRAPHY
- Environmental representations for different cultures
- Grow, taste, & learn to recognize food from different cultures
- Study the influence of climate/geography on cultural development
- Recreate multi-media experiences of the natural environments of diff. parts of the world
- Study animals & insects from different parts of the world
EXTRA CURRICULAR
- Grow vegetables, fruits, herbs & use them in cooking
- Compose using sound from nature & the environment
- Recognize & recreate visual images of natural patterns (paint or sculpt them!)
- Create dances which embody/demonstrate patterns, objects, & animals in nature
- Design “full-blown” dramatic enactments of natural process
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DACAL - Darul Ansar Centre for Applied Learning
Anjuman-e-Himayath-e-Islam
#16, B.N. Reddy Road, Chennai 600 017.
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