PARKS OF LOMBARDY:
WHEN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION BECOMES
A REAL NETWORK
Dott. Tomaso Colombo - Dott.ssa Alessandra Dellocca
A.R.E.A. Parchi
Cascina Centro Operativo Parco Nord Milano
Via Clerici, 150
20099 Sesto San Giovanni (MI)
Tel. 02/24101621; Fax. 02/241016220
[email protected]
www.areaparchi.it
Lombardy
Lombardy
Milan
LOMBARDY
PROTECED AREAS
26 regional parks
22 county parks
58 natural reserves
25 natural monuments
in addition to other 450.000
hectares of territory with other
kinds of conservation (more than
20% of the whole lombard
territory).
The different colors show the
different kind of landascape of
each single park, from suburban
to wildmountain parks)
A.R.E.A. Parchi
Educational Environment Regional Archive
This centre created in the last year a system of 5 “didactical tools”
OUR BIG FIVE:
1. The Elefphant: A regional learning environmental education program
2. The Cheetah: An “A year in the Parks” competition, to stimulate teachers and
students to make up communication outputs about the parks system.
3. The rhyno: A regional evaluation process for quality in park centers
4. A cattle of Buffalos or “Seeds of Culture”: a program of book animation
activities.
5. The lion kings: “EnvironmentalSchool EXPO” and “1^ Biodiversity Festival” as
to promote best practises in environmental education both for students and
citizen
1.
A regional learning environmental education
program “A Park to learn”
2.
An “A year in the Parks” competition, aimed to
stimulate teachers and students to make up
communication outputs about the parks
system
3.
A regional evaluation process for quality in parks
centers educational activities
4.
“Seeds of Culture”: book references and a
program of book animation activities
5.
“EnvironmentalSchool EXPO” and “1^
Biodiversity Festival” as to promote best
practises in environmental education and
behaviours both for students and citizen
The BIG FIVE conclusions
which learning for EE or SDE
1. The trumpet of elephant: try to supply teachers in doing their own job better
but if you want to catch what nature suggests you do not avoid upsetting their
didactic methods. Open air experiences are richer than what you may plan
2. The growl of cheetah: do not fear of involving students even by marketing
techniques; EE in not a religion or a political party, you don’t need faith but
passion for the earth and consciousness of the contradictions of our living
3. The snort of rhino: quality is the only way to turn EE from a cultural option
into a professional choice and a perspective of young generations
4. The grunt of the buffalos: search for hidden hints of environmental culture
anyway: you’ll find them out! Use a metaphorical language: people will catch
and remember easier what you wanted to say
5. The roar of lion: don’t be stuck on students targets only, but enlarge your
hunting territory; let you contaminate from different approaches, the strength
must be always on environmental issues and not on who’s leading it or
financing it
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Tomaso Colombo
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.areaparchi.it