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En-"dangered" Beings - Lesson One - Active Ecosystem At-a-Glance
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| Brief Summary:
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A group activity, involving movement and games, ending ina question/discussion follow-up.
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| Audience:
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Ages 5-7
Ages 8-10
Ages 11-13
Ages 14-17 (High School)
Ages 18-21 (College)
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Community Center
Hillel
Outdoors (Camp)
Religious/Day School
Synagogue
Other
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| Program Type:
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Educational Program
Game/Hike/Outdoor Activity
Sermon/Reading/Discussion
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| Issues:
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Eco-Kashrut/Vegetarianism
Environmental Health and Justice
Tikkun Olam/Stewardship/Values and Ethics
Tzaar Baalei Chayim/Biodiversity/Endangered Species
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Description
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Divide the group/ecosystem into three -
A. Species
B. Humans
C. Species Witnesses.
Group A begins by freeze framing how they may interact in their habitat. Group B will move together as humans, traveling through the space with threatening gestures and sounds that you suggest to them. You may want to choose gestures/actions related to the ecosystem or habitat (s) that they have been studying. Gestures might be: clear cutting trees, poaching animals, polluting, digging for oil. it is best to find out about an environmental threat to your area that may be relevant to this exercise. As the group is moving, ask them to freeze. the third group Group C , the witnesses, is now invited to move through the frozen space. They should be encouraged to investigate all of the space, to move in and out of the positive and negative spaces created by the gestures. they may need to crawl through or over spaces created by body shapes. they are responding physically to what they witnessed. Then switch. Students should do this responding in silence while statues stand in silence. Question follow-up: * What was it like to be a witness? How did your relationship to the action change?
* How did it feel to watch the humans?
* What was it like knowing that there were witnesses observing?
* What did it feel like to be threatening?
* What emotions came up for you?
* When did you feel most threatening?
* When did you feel most threatened?
* how did it feel when you were a human to watch the other members of the ecosystem respond to what you did?
* What are some of the ways in which you could have made this exercise different? (did anyone try to stop the humans?) Look at the quote on the board (Genesis 6:19) and read out loud.
What is Noah doing here? why?
What must that responsibility feel like to him?
How might Noah have handled that responsibility or knowledge differently?
How might you have handled that responsibility or knowledge differently?
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Materials Needed
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Percussion instrument, to keep a beat.
Open space for the activity to take place in.
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Benchmarks
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Please familiarize yourself with the material so the program will have a fluid progression.
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Preparation Time
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Activity Time
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1 hour to an hour and a half
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