ENGAGEMENT WITH NATURE
Competency
What Does Engagement With Nature Mean?
A global citizen shows evidence of developing a skill or understanding through interaction with our natural environment.
What You Need To Do:
Engage in a wilderness experience, and describe any skills you have learned and/or how your attitudes or thinking with regard to wilderness may have changed.
Will My Reflection Be Approved?
You provide evidence of significant wilderness engagement and reflect on the skills you learned or how the experience has changed your thinking.
Exemplars
Guiding Questions
Developing new understanding - Overall, how did this experience develop new understandings/change you as a global citizen?
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E.g. How have your attitudes or thinking changed with regard to wilderness and your relationship with it?​​​
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Describe an experience where you engaged with the wilderness?
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What skills did you learn from this engagement?
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How did your attitude or mindset change with regard to wilderness?
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How has this experience challenged you outside of your comfort zone? How did you overcome these challenges?
Metacognition
Guiding Questions
Engagement With Nature Podcasts
Beauty, Connection and Perspectives
Mr De Vries describes his experiences diving over the course of 18 years, and the range of biodiversity he has been able to see during that time. He talks about how this activity has led him to a range of different places around the world, and given him a different view, into the effect of plastic pollution. From seeing an increase in beach side areas, but also understanding the profound effect it has on communities. He also talks about how easy it is to say you are helping the environment, while in actuality to help these underprivileged communities, it really requires much more help than the individual visiting can provide. On the other hand, he did say that it is possible to help in small ways, and how as scuba divers we can take these different challenges on. His insight on diving and the profound effect that it has can be summarised by “For me [scuba diving] is a number of things, one it is just the beauty that you see, and the connection that you feel with the earth itself, and life. But it is also a fantastic way to deal with personal challenges…” How can we feel more connected to nature? How can we make sure we are having a positive impact in the places we are visiting?