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I AM A TREE

Thrust Area:

Forestry, Conservation

Place:

Classroom

Group Size:

10 - 15

Material:

Music (optional)

Subjects :

Performing arts

Duration:

15- 20 minutes

 

 

 

 

Objectives:

Identifying oneself with a tree and imagining its response through acting.


Activity:

Ask the students to act out what happens to a tree when there is a
• Gentle breeze
• Violent storm
Forest fire
• Squirrel running up its trunk
• Person plucking leaves and fruits
• Person carving on its bark
• Shower of rain
• Child climbing it
• Man watering it
• Person cutting it
 
This activity would be very effective if there was some music with it.
VARIATION / EXTENSION
Students should observe trees during the year in as many of these conditions as possible.
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