The program offers nearly a dozen DiVerde activities in the last quarter
The gardens of the town and parishes will become fun and entertaining classroom ecology on Saturday morning.
The Department of Environment launched for the 2011-2012 academic year a proposed environmental education activities in gardens aimed at families and especially children ages 6 to 14 years.
"Urban Ecology Classroom: DiVerde" is a learning program that encourages citizen participation in public through educational activities, games and animation in order to foster an approach to urban environment.
The gardens of Murcia capital and districts will provide the ideal environment for through highly participatory dynamic, families and especially children, have a space for constructive leisure and values ​​to work with the environment more supportive environment.
The major issues to deal with urban ecology are water, waste, energy, mobility, noise, responsible consumption, air pollution, urban nature and environmental protection at home, consumption, among most prominent.
Topics that they will offer participants a series of activities related to knowledge of the urban environment, promoting positive habits and behaviors towards conservation of the environment in which we live.
All these issues will be worked through small talks and workshops, and of demonstration, games and gymkhanas, always depending on the issues that will be developed.
There will be workshops with waste material, experiments with water, solar energy demonstration activities, storytelling and thematic green gymkhanas, visits to museums, among other activities.
The types of proposals are varied, and adapt to environmental resources, we will investigate who live in the river and its uses through history, will be taught unique customs and traditions of the municipality, traditional games (bowling, comets), the traditional irrigation system and its devices (ditches, primers, mills, etc.), the use of hemp, or the secrets of silk production, is explained by dynamic games and the diversity of plant and animal species gardens, etc..
A new feature also arises out of the gardens the traveling exhibition "Murcia ecology of a city" which has held 16 years in schools and municipal associations and reflects an approach to the municipality of Murcia, their needs and environmental problems.
A search for alternatives to improve the environment and quality of life.
This exhibition will complement and support teaching urban theme to be discussed at each session.
While this program is to contribute to the dissemination and knowledge spaces, collections and museums that make an important contribution to social understanding and enjoyment of science and the environment.
These include, for example, the Malecon Garden, the Museum of Rocks and the Botanical Gardens, University of Murcia.
Thus, the gardens of Murcia capital and districts will provide the ideal environment for through highly participatory dynamic, families and especially children, have a space for constructive leisure time and can work the values ​​of solidarity with the environment.
The activities will be carried out mainly in a garden in the city and also develop other traveling by districts of the municipality.
Activities were held Saturday from 11 to 13:30, starting on October 22.
The full program for the last quarter of the year is as follows:
Saturday
Activity
Place
October 22
Waste
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Downwind: sustainable technical workshop to play with the air
Aljada Garden
Bacons Bridge
October 29
Water
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Explore life in the garden
Garden of Nitrate
Murcia
November 5
Noise
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Solar mills Workshop
Park
Cabezo Constitution
Torres
November 12
Living care for the environment
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Shop toys with household materials
Garden of San Roque
El Palmar
November 19
Urban Nature
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Environmental Storytelling (2)
Glorieta de Spain
Murcia
November 26
The protection of the environment from home
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Draw the urban nature.
Monte Gardens Beniaján Azahar
December 3
Air pollution
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Popular Games: Bowling huertanos and Caliche (1).
With the collaboration of the Bowling Federation of Murcia
Typical City Pavilion Regional Games (May 1st Ave) - Murcia
December 10
Responsible consumption
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
We track the banks of the Segura life
Garden Pier (input)
Murcia
December 17
Mobility
Garden
Fame
(With Centrofama)
Murcia
Christmas Gymkhana
Murcia Plaza de Santo Domingo
The aim is to promote the dissemination and society participation in environmental issues, through a proposed recreational and educational activities to be held in the gardens and other areas of environmental and cultural interest of the municipality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia